On 2010-10-01, Pascal J. Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> wrote: > Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes: >> The obvious simple maximum() in C will not raise an exception nor return >> something which isn't an int in any program which is not on its face >> invalid in the call. This is by definite contrast with several of the >> interpreted languages,
> This has nothing to do with the fact that these languages have > implementations using the interpreter pattern instead of a compiler. True, but it's a good enough statistical correlation to serve in many cases. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
