"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You seem to be still under the influence of the type-safety mafia, who > want to make you believe that with enough type-checking you can > prevent all bugs (though they don't believe it themselves). > > Python already has a very useful kind of strong type safety: it tags > all data at the lowest level so it won't be interpreted the wrong way; > in particular it can't be tricked into dereferencing something that's > not a pointer to an object, or calling something that's not a pointer > to a well-behaved function. (Extensions like ctypes excluded.) Java > makes a similar guarantee. C++ and Perl don't.
Nicely explained. I think this paragraph should go in the tutorial if not already. tjr _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
