On 26Aug2016 19:58, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN <d...@psu.edu> wrote:
"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... "
so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing'
but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'?
"How do you know she is a witch?"
"She looks like one."
etc.
I do grant that ultimately, the duck does come into play, since the witch
weighs the same as a duck.
I disagree. They want to burn her because she's supposedly a witch, but the
scientific test was that she weighed as much as a duck. So I think your second
example is also duck typing: functioning like a duck.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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