On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:46:43 +0200 Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spoke Preben Randhol (on 2006-06-18 13:34): > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 > > Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - no DWIM-ism (do what I mean) on 'value' addition > > > > But you don't add two values. you add two strings. If you > > want numbers you must convert the strings. > > Why? At least - if its obvious, what I want. If I say: I want something to eat. Can you know if I want a dessert or a dinner ? ;-) My point is that you don't specify. In your case you show that pyhton is polymorphic, and that can have side-effects... Since in Python you cannot define what type a function should accept you can throw anything to it and it will happily much at it as best it can. Computers are dumb and it is better that one give them enough instructions than to let them second guess you IMHO.... My other language of choice is Ada. Ada is quite the opposite of Python in being a very strictly typed language. It takes some getting used to Python for me ;-) In my opinion Ada95 & Ada2005 got strict typing correct, while Java only partially is strictly typed. C/C++ is not. Anyway Ada and Python has different targets so I can happily play with both static and dynamic typing. I can recommend Ada as it will teach you to a very good programming style that can be used when using other language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
