Paul Rubin wrote: >I don't find static type declarations to have much cost. It's just a >few more keystrokes. I'm open to persuasion about whether they have >benefit.
Overall I agree with you and would like to have OPTIONAL static type declarations in Python, as has often been discussed. But without facilities for generic programming, such as templates in C++, static type declarations can force one to duplicate a LOT of code, with one sorting routine each for integer, floats, strings, etc. Some algorithms are type invariant, and Python is a concise language for expressing those algorithms. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
