On 11/26/2012 03:51 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: >> In a dynamically-typed language such as Python, the set of acceptable >> types for an argument is determined by the operations which the function >> performs on it. This is in direct contrast to a statically-typed language, >> where the set of acceptable operations on an argument is determined by the >> type of the argument. > Not how I would put it. In a statically typed language, types are > checked at compile-time (which does not necessarily imply that useful > type information can be made available to an IDE), whereas in a > dynamically typed language, some or all type checking is deferred to > run-time.
Not how I would put it. In a statically typed language, the valid types are directly implied by the function parameter declarations, while in a dynamic language, they're defined in the documentation, and only enforced (if at all) by the body of the function. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
