-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sacha schreef: > "Joachim Durchholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Raffael Cavallaro schrieb: >>> On 2006-06-14 15:04:34 -0400, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> >>>> Um... heterogenous lists are not necessarily a sign of expressiveness. >>>> The vast majority of cases can be transformed to homogenous lists >>>> (though these might then contain closures or OO objects). >>>> >>>> As to references to nonexistent functions - heck, I never missed these, >>>> not even in languages without type inference :-) >>>> >>>> [[snipped - doesn't seem to relate to your answer]] >> Give a heterogenous list that would to too awkward to live in a >> statically-typed language. > > Many lists are heterogenous, even in statically typed languages. > For instance lisp code are lists, with several kinds of atoms and > sub-lists.. > A car dealer will sell cars, trucks and equipment.. > In a statically typed language you would need to type the list on a common > ancestor... > What would then be the point of statical typing , as you stilll need to type > check > each element in order to process that list ? Sure you can do this in a > statically-typed > language, you just need to make sure some relevant ancestor exists. In my > experience > you'll end up with the base object-class more often than not, and that's > what i call > dynamic typing.
In my experience you won’t. I almost never have a List<Object> (Java), and when I have one, I start thinking on how I can improve the code to get rid of it. H. - -- Hendrik Maryns ================== http://aouw.org Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEkofme+7xMGD3itQRAo0XAJ9DiG228ZKMLX8JH+u9X+6YGEHwgQCdH/Jn kC/F/b5rbmUvUzKYIv8agis= =iuV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
