On Sep 5, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am not
saying with we implement a strict duck typing mimicing Ruby or
Python.
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am saying
that you are using the wrong words for that.
Unfortunately terms to describe typing do not have clear boundaries.
But which words are used are not important to me, as long as the
meaning gets across. Does "dynamic typing" make you happy? Python,
Ruby, Perl, Tcl, and to a large extent Pd, all have "dynamic typing".
So in the sense of Pd, anything that can be intepreted as a number
should be. But that's in conflict with having symbols that have
things that can be intepreted as a number. So make Pd consistent,
either it needs to be illegal to have symbols that can be
interpreted as a number,
This could break some existing patches.
Do you have an examples? That would be very helpful. Off the top of
my head, it seems that it would only break patches that rely on
errors, which is not a very common situation.
hc
or maybe symbols that can be interpreted as a number behave like a
float when something is expecting a float.
That's what Tcl and Perl do for ints, floats and strings.
They don't call it duck-typing though, and no-one does.
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