Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: <snipped> > Here, chew on this: > > http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/dynamic_typing.html > > Now I'll probably be accused of using disproportionate force :-).
The true evil is overloading. Dynamic typing allows operator overloading which makes things really hard for anyone to parse correctly. Things like the simple plus symbol (+) no longer means add two numbers together, but "munge two things together". With the poor programmer left to remember what happens when various types are munged together. All those people wailing and gnashing about goto should have been beating the concept of overloading in all its forms (but not on the head or with an implement). Cheers, Malcolm V. _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
