[Python-3000] i guess i was misunderstood (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 11 20:03:19 CEST 2006


[Guido]

> You seem to be still under the influence of the type-safety mafia, who > want to make you believe that with enough type-checking you can > prevent all bugs (though they don't believe it themselves).

[Talin, quoetd by Guido]

>> I think that I agree with the gist of Tomer's point.

[Guido responds]

>Well, to most of us it's far from clear what he's trying to say...

[Tomer]

no, i'm quite the opposite in fact. i want a type-less language. sure, builtin types like int/str/float need some concrete distinction, but apart from those, all language-level objects should be typeless.

Well, sorry, but I don't think anyone here understands what you mean by "typeless" so I think continuing this discussion is rather pointless. Your statement that "an object's type is its MRO" is also meaningless and not rooted in fact. And your examples are incomprehensible.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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