On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > The usual test of a weakly-typed language is that "1"+1 succeeds (and > usually gives 2), as in Perl but not Python. I believe you are confusing > weak typing with dynamic typing, a common mistake.
I'd go stronger than "usually" there. If "1"+1 results in "11", then that's not weak typing but rather a convenient syntax for stringification - if every object can (or must) provide a to-string method, and concatenating anything to a string causes it to be stringified, then it's still strongly typed. Or is a rich set of automated type-conversion functions evidence of weak typing? And if so, then where is the line drawn - is upcasting of int to float weak? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
