In <51cd9a6b.7030...@gmail.com>, on 06/28/2013 at 10:15 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> said:
>On 28/06/2013 9:52 PM, John McKown wrote: >> Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries Never bind prematurely -- S. Metz >Careful! There are quite a few assembler programmers frequent this >list! Assembly is a special case of compilation. >I'm a big fan of duck typing. Very powerful concept that the value >carries the type and not the variable. That's a good servant but a poor master. I want a language with both strong dynamic typing and strong static typing, with the static type taking precedence; that is, you can store anything into a variable declared DYNAMIC, but only matching values for anything with a static type. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN