Re: Optional Static Typing: Part II

2005-01-04 Thread Carl Banks
John Roth wrote: > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=86641 Nitpicking: I don't think he's necessarily in good company w.r.t. types vs classes. Take Ada, for example. In Ada, a class is a set of types (in particular, the type and all its subtypes), which is kind of the opposite w

Re: Optional Static Typing: Part II

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Hobbs
John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, the base objective seems to be to incorporate PyChecker > functionality into the root. This in turn requires type inference, > which in turn strongly suggests type annotations to help the > inferencer out over rough spots. > > I like this approach a lot.

Re: Optional Static Typing: Part II

2005-01-04 Thread Roman Suzi
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, John Roth wrote: >Guido has posted a second blog entry on the optional static typing >initiative. >I like this a lot better than the first. Declarative approach is even more human-oriented than algorithmic one. If Python is to support declarations, let it support declarative p

Optional Static Typing: Part II

2005-01-04 Thread John Roth
Guido has posted a second blog entry on the optional static typing initiative. I like this a lot better than the first. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=86641 Now, the base objective seems to be to incorporate PyChecker functionality into the root. This in turn requires type infe