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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Philippe Fremy on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @13:26

I agree 100%. For every big python project, the dynamic typing becomes a problem. I enforce type arguments on all my functions but that's clearly not enough.

Actually, there are very few circumstances where I would change the type of my variable dynamically. I consider that bad programming style. So a static typing system would be ok and certainly remove lot of problems.

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Corbin on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @14:06

What about at like the start of the Python script you some way declare that all variables must be declared. And then create a new 'dynamic' type so in case you want some variable to still be dynamic and all it could be. Also if in the start it isn't declared that all variables must be declared, it acts like it does now.

That way everyone wins! I think...

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Philippe Fremy on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @14:16

Well, say that go Guido ! Next time I'll interview him, I'll ask for sure :-)
(shameless plug: http://www.freehackers.org/fosdem2002/guido.html)

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Rayiner Hashem on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @17:14

That's not unlike what soft-typing languages do. In those languages (Common Lisp, many Schemes, Dylan), a type declaration is an optional constraint. If you put it in, it can help the compiler optimize the code, and check for errors. If you leave t out, you can still use full dynamicity. The usual development style with such languages is you write your "prototype" in a fully-dynamic, general manner, and then gradually convert that into your production code by adding declarations, refactoring, and optimizing.

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Shulai on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @18:26

That's in my list of reasons I not really like python.
Also you can count the sloppy OO style, and even the tabbed blocks, even admitting it is nice to force people to write cleaner code).
I like more Pike, sadly it is soooo unknown and underused...

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