[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) writes: > That is, while I have a LOT of respect for Paul's programming > and judgment, and question myself when I'm on the side opposite > him, I ultimately value type declarations in languages such as > Java as more cost than benefit.
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. I do believe that it's a horrible deficiency in Python that it has no declarations at all, even optional ones, like "perl -w" or "use strict". Python's scoping hacks that result from the lack of declarations just seem to me like pure insanity. I was pretty skeptical of Java's checked exceptions when I first used them but have been coming around about them. There's just been too many times when I wrote something in Python that crashed because some lower-level function raised an exception that the upper level hadn't been expecting, after the program had been in use for a while. I'd sure rather find out about that at compile time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
