Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli): > | ... Therefore, > | if the inability to verify that a function named 'foobar' is in fact > | never called anywhere is a weakness, it's a weakness shared by all of > | these languages. The originator of this thread appeared to assume that > | it was a weakness of Python and not of C++... > > If we give him credit for having some idea of what he's talking about, > then we could perhaps read his "encourages" as "makes trivially easy." > These two languages are in such different levels with introspection > that it seems kind of disingenuous to me to make this argument, frankly.
I disagree with you, although my disagreement may be partly due to the fact that lately I've dealt mostly with C++ programmers who know *perfectly well* every subtle nuance of the language, just as much as I do it not even more -- Matt Austern and the like. Last time I was a C++ guru (about 7 years ago) that wasn't the case, but then, I wasn't Uber Technical Lead for Google then;-). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
