"Rob Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But it only gaurantees this because the variables themselves have a > type, the values themselves do not.
I think statements like this are confusing, because there are different interpretations of what a "value" is. I would say that the integer '4' is a value, and that it has type Integer (for instance). This value is different from 4 the Int16, or 4 the double-precision floating point number. From this viewpoint, all values in statically typed languages have types, but I think you use 'value' to denote the representation of a datum in memory, which is a different thing. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
