On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:39:53 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 16:23 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: >> Yes, it certainly does. Not that you'll get many Pythonistas >> to confess >> to that fact. Somehow those who brag about the readability and >> expressiveness of source code just cannot admit that: >> class.method(sting name, int count) >> - is *obviously* more expressive than - class.method(name, >> count) >> Oh, well. >> This is obvious even in the Python documentation itself where >> one >> frequently asks oneself "Uhh... so what is parameter X supposed >> to be... >> a string... a list... ?" > >> But I thought that was the one of beauties of Python, you don't need to >> know if the input parameter is a list or a string. > > You don't need to know; unless of course you want the expected result.
Says who? If you're free to assume the function requires a certain type, we're free to assume the function is polymorphic and doesn't. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
