On 2006-08-29, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tuesday 29/8/2006 02:45, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> >>That may be true. But one may wonder if this is a failing of the >> >>programmer or a failing of the language that doesn't support >> >>such things. >> > >> > In any case, I don't see how this supports the original claim that >> > strict type checking input params is good practice. >> >>I'm not defending that claim. I'm just putting question marks >>with the claim that strict type checking input parameters is >>bad practice. > > I think others have shown enough examples of good things that can be > done by *not* enforcing a specific type...
That doesn't contradict that in other situations good things can be done by enforcing specific type or at least limiting to a subset of specific types. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
