Pascal Costanza schrieb: >> Another observation: type safeness is more of a spectrum than a >> clearcut distinction. Even ML and Pascal have ways to circumvent the >> type system, and even C is typesafe unless you use unsafe constructs. >> IOW from a type-theoretic point of view, there is no real difference >> between their typesafe and not typesafe languages in the "statically >> typed" column; the difference is in the amount of unsafe construct >> usage in practial programs. > > It's also relevant how straightforward it is to distinguish between safe > and unsafe code, how explicit you have to be when you use unsafe code, > how likely it is that you accidentally use unsafe code without being > aware of it, what the generally accepted conventions in a language > community are, etc. pp.
Fully agreed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
