Am Friday 31 October 2008 10:54:23 schrieb Matthias Bethke: > Hi Albert, > > on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: > > ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and > > good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even > > have this functionality built in. > > Whow...I've been out of Python long enough to totally forget that you > *needed* to do this. In Perl, the "use strict" you find at the top of > every well-written script does it at compile time.
<sarcasm> Yeah, let's continue to bash Python, which is such a badly broken language nobody wants to use it productively, because other languages offer so much better functionality to test for programmer error at compile time. Perl is a brilliant example to mention in this context. </sarcasm> Seriously: dynamic typing is a blessing, (only!) when combined with strict typing (where Perl doesn't [really] have the latter, even when use strict is in effect). Having to declare variables before use mostly is irrelevant (I'm not talking about _defining_ variables before use), because it's no common source of bugs. At least that's my 5 cents. -- Heiko Wundram hackerkey://v4sw7CHJLSUY$hw5ln5pr7FOP$ck2ma9u7FL$w3DVWXm0l7GL$i65e6t3EMRSXb7ADORen5a26s5MSr2p-6.62/-6.56g5AORZ
