Dr.Ruud wrote: > Marshall schreef: > > > "dynamic types." I don't have a firm definition for > > that term, but my working model is runtime type tags. In which > > case, I would say that among statically typed languages, > > Java does have dynamic types, but C does not. C++ is > > somewhere in the middle. > > C has union.
That's not the same thing. The value of a union in C can be any of a set of specified types. But the program cannot find out which, and the language doesn't know either. With C++ and Java dynamic types the program can test to find the type. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
