Re: Python design strategy (was Python evolution: Unease)

2005-01-04 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viile writes - Type declarations are a feature that might benefit IronPython and Jython more than they would CPython. How much is this part of Guido's decisionmaking process? One major reason to allow optional static typing is to aid specializing compilers. A language cal

Python design strategy (was Python evolution: Unease)

2005-01-04 Thread ajsiegel
Viile writes - >Type declarations are a feature that might benefit IronPython and >Jython more than they would CPython. How much is this part of Guido's decisionmaking process? Guido is , IMO, very much a strategist, as well as a language designer. That's good, I think. However it seems to me