On 3/16/19 8:14 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: > On 3/16/19 6:17 AM, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 3/16/19 4:39 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: >>> Rémi Lapeyre wrote: >>>> I think this omit a very important property of >>>> mathematic equations thought, maths is a very strongly typed language >>>> which can be a significant improvement for readability. >>> >>> Python is very strongly typed too, so I don't really see how >>> maths is different. >> >> 'Strongly Typed Language' can have slightly different meaning to >> different people. In Python, an object have a very definite type which >> strongly defines what you can do with that object, while other languages >> are less definitive in that aspect. But in Python, names are NOT that >> strongly typed, as a name can be rebound to any sort of object with a >> wide variety of types, compared to other languages where before using >> (or at first use) a variable you need to declare the 'type' that will be >> stored in it, and that type is all that it can hold. > > That's not strong vs. weak typing, that's dynamic vs. static typing. > > That said, I agree that different people get this wrong. :-)
As I said, different meaning to different people, Some consider that dynamic typing implies not a totally strong typing (since the name doesn't have a well know type). -- Richard Damon _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
