Scott David Daniels wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Huh? There is a huge, fundamental difference: namely whether a type > > system is sound or not. A soundness proof is obligatory for any serious > > type theory, and failure to establish it simply is a bug in the theory. > > So you claim Java and Objective C are "simply bugs in the theory."
You're misquoting me. What I said is that lack of soundness of a particular type theory (i.e. a language plus type system) is a bug in that theory. But anyway, Java in fact is frequently characterised as having a bogus type system (e.g. with respect to array subtyping). Of course, in a hybrid language like Java with its dynamic checks it can be argued either way. Naturally, the type system of Objective-C is as broken as the one of plain C. - Andreas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
