On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-01-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i was hoping one didnt have to initialize variables because perl >> defaults their value to zero. Also I noticed if I initialize a variable >> as 0 , then I can only do integer math not floating math. > > Python is a strictly typed language. Perl isn't -- Perl does all sorts > of stuff "automagically" by trying to guess what you wanted". I perfer > languages that do exactly what I tell them to rather than what the > language's author thought I might have meant.
Especially when that's Larry Wall ... :) tom -- Don't trust the laws of men. Trust the laws of mathematics. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
