In article <da0ec7a1-decd-4cfb-9a0b-5722879f5...@googlegroups.com>, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes I did see that it is possible to redefine the type of a variable. But I > don't think I would ever do this intentionally One does not need language features to protect themselves against things they do intentionally. They need language features to protect themselves against things they do by accident. Different languages protect you from different things. Compare, for example, C++ and Python. C++ protects you against accidentally passing an int where you were supposed to pass a float. Well, no, with automatic type promotion, that's a bad example. But it does prevent you from passing an IntThing where you were supposed to pass a FloatThing (assuming IntThing is not a subclass of FloatThing, and a few other details). But, Python protects you from dereferencing a null pointer, or double-freeing a pointer. There's just no way to even write those concepts in Python. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Pick which type of protection you feel is more important and use the language which gives you that. > need to be really careful with Python. You need to be really careful with all programming languages. You just need to be careful about different things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
