David Hopwood wrote: > 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.
So, how does this "dynamic" type work? It can't simply be the "any" type, because that type has no/few functions defined on it. It strikes me that *when* exactly binding happens will matter. In a statically typed language, it may be that all binding occurs at compile time, and in a dynamic language, it may be that all binding occurs at runtime. So you might have to change the binding mechanism as well. Does the "dynamic" type allow this? Marshall -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
