Marshall wrote: > The real question is, are there some programs that we > can't write *at all* in a statically typed language, because > they'll *never* be typable?
In a statically typed language that has a "dynamic" type, all dynamically typed programs are straightforwardly expressible. In a statically typed, Turing-complete language that does not have a "dynamic" type, it is always *possible* to express a dynamically typed program, but this may require a global transformation of the program or use of an interpreter -- i.e. the "Felleisen expressiveness" of the language is reduced. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
