Someone wrote:
I'm just curious whether this argument against dynamic typing - that you end up doing the job of a static compiler in test code - holds in practice.
I suspect that, although some of the things caught by the tests would be caught by static typing, the very *same* tests are also catching a lot of things that wouldn't be caught by static typing. Also, I don't think it's valid to equate the size of the tests with the amount of effort it took to develop them. For instance, the test suite for Pyrex is currently larger than the Pyrex compiler, but I've still spent far more time and effort developing the compiler than writing the tests. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
