On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > But we are really ignoring the elephant in the room. Implict > conversion to Boolean is just a drop in the bucket compared > to the constant "shell game" we are subjected to when > reading source code. We so naively believe that a symbol > named "lst" is a list object or a symbol "age" is a integer, > when we could be totally wrong! This is the source of many > subtle bugs!!!
You know, if you want a language with strict type declarations and extreme run-time efficiency, there are some around. I think one of them might even be used to make the most popular Python. Give it a try, you might like it! There's NO WAY that you could accidentally pass a list to a function that's expecting a float, NO WAY to unexpectedly call a method on the wrong type of object. It would suit you perfectly! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
