Ketil Malde wrote: > "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.
Well I haven't been consistent so far :) But I mean the value as the semantics of the program itself sees it. Which mostly means the datum in memory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
