On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:41:48 +0200, Terry Hancock wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
> 1) Assume the variables are of a sensible type (not > necessarily the one you expected, though), and provide > exception handling to catch the case where their interface > does not match what you expect. The problem I have with this is that I might discover an error at runtime instead of compile time, this means that I need to really exercise all possible test cases to make sure that I've covered everything (which of course is a good thing) but it would be easier to discover this at "compile time". (note: I'm not trying to change Python, only that to me statically typing has it advantages also) > Let's face it -- should it matter if you "are a programmer" > or only if you "can program"? This is the difference in > philosophy behind a dynamically-typed language like > Python and a statically typed one like Java. I don't really understand what you're meaning (English isn't my native language as you probably already have discovered) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
