Quoting Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid>:
> Luis Zarrabeitia <ky...@uh.cu> writes: > > Wait, do you _really_ believe that _static_ checks could prevent problems > > arising from _unexpected_ conditions in the _data_? > > The data does not arrive from outer space on a magtape stapled to a > meteor. It comes out of another program. Most of the problems in > processing it come from mismatches between the processing programs and > the generation programs. Static checks would help eliminate those > mismatches. No, copy and paste from the original data structures would eliminate those mismatches. A compiler checking the reimplementation of said data structres, whatever the language, has no way of knowing if the structure matches. -- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
