On Aug 23, 9:34 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:46:43 +0100, lipska the kat wrote: > > We need to separate out the 'view' from the 'implementation' here. Most > > developers I know, if looking at the code and without the possibly > > dubious benefit of knowing that in Python 'everything is an object' > > would not call this 'strong typing' > > Most developers are wrong :) > > A very useful resource to read is "What To Know Before Debating Type > Systems", which was put on the internet, lost, then found and put back up > here: > > http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/
Thanks for that article. There was one by Peter Wegner -- exact one I cant find. Here's a good approximation: http://analysis-of-persistence-tools.googlecode.com/files/p7-wegner.pdf Section 5.2.1 in particular has 7 different things that the word 'type' could mean to different types(!) of programmers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
