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I agree with your second point. Python doesn't pretend to be strongly-typed, but it does use its, uh, 'loose' typing to great advantage. I particularly like Py
by yen223 12y ago
I agree with your second point. Python doesn't pretend to be strongly-typed, but it does use its, uh, 'loose' typing to great advantage.
I particularly like Python's arbitrary-precision integers, where ints are implicitly converted to longs, allowing you to have the performance of ints without the problem of integer overflows.
- jrochkind1 12y agoYou say "python doesn't pretend to be strongly-typed", yet the OP is claiming it _is_ strongly typed. I think the reality is "strongly typed" doesn't really mean much.