In <[email protected]>, on 06/28/2013
at 10:15 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:
>On 28/06/2013 9:52 PM, John McKown wrote:
>> Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries
Never bind prematurely -- S. Metz
>Careful! There are quite a few assembler programmers frequent this
>list!
Assembly is a special case of compilation.
>I'm a big fan of duck typing. Very powerful concept that the value
>carries the type and not the variable.
That's a good servant but a poor master. I want a language with both
strong dynamic typing and strong static typing, with the static type
taking precedence; that is, you can store anything into a variable
declared DYNAMIC, but only matching values for anything with a static
type.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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