Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> On 05/06/2014 21:07, Alain Ketterlin wrote: >>> >>> Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 05/06/14 10:14, Alain Ketterlin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Type safety. >>>> >>>> Perhaps. Python has strong type safety. >>> >>> Come on. >> >> I don't understand that comment, please explain. > > "Type safety" means many different things to different people. What > Python has is untyped variables, and hierarchically typed objects. > It's impossible to accidentally treat an integer as a float, and have > junk data [1].
It's impossible in Swift as well. > It's impossible to accidentally call a base class's method when you > ought to have called the overriding method in the subclass, which is a > risk in C++ [2]. I don't how this can happen in C++, unless you actually have an instance of the base class. Anyway, I didn't mention C++. [I agree with the rest of your explanation.] -- Alain. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
