On 21-02-18 06:18, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/20/2018 8:38 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> People praise the dynamic nature of Python here on this list and then >> often enough seem to recoil when they see a piece of code really using >> that dynamism. > > ... > > When makes people recoil is abusing dynamism by needlessly rebinding a > name to objects of different specific type within a single block of code. > But that was what Steven was complaining about. The fact that in a static language He would need two names if he wanted a variable in a single block of code to be first a number and then a string. At least that is how I understood him.
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