"Rob Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we're discussing this at cross-purposes. In a language like C > or another statically typed language there is no information passed > with values indicating their type.
You seem to be confusing "does not have a type" with "no type information is passed at runtime". > Have a look in a C compiler if you don't believe me. Believe me, I have. > No it doesn't. Casting reinterprets a value of one type as a value of > another type. > There is a difference. If I cast an unsigned integer 2000000000 to a > signed integer in C on the machine I'm using then the result I will get > will not make any sense. Which result are you getting? What does it mean to "make sense"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list