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How is it not related? Because Python is “strong typed” vs “weak typed” for Tcl? $ tclsh8.6 % expr 1 + 2 3 % expr 3 + “hey there” invalid
by apgwoz 2y ago
How is it not related?
Because Python is “strong typed” vs “weak typed” for Tcl?
$ tclsh8.6
% expr 1 + 2
3
% expr 3 + “hey there”
invalid bareword “hey”
in expression “1 + hey there”;
should be “$hey” or “{hey}” or “hey(…)” or …
vs.
$ python3.11
>>> 1 + 2
3
>>> 1 + “hey there”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘int’ and ‘str’
I don’t really see a difference. Both checked types at runtime. Clearly Tcl can check types at runtime, even though it represents everything as a string. Whether all commands do so is another story. But, not all functions in Python check types before trying to do things that don’t make sense, either. So…