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From: jayessay <nospam@foo.com>
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Date: 12 Sep 2004 12:02:45 -0400
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 09 Sep 2004 20:47:54 -0400, jayessay wrote:
> 
> > Lionel Draghi <Lionel.nospam.Draghi@Ada-France.org> writes:
> > 
> >> jayessay wrote:
> >> ...
> >>> First, types are indeed part of program design in dynamic languages.
> >>> In some respects they are even more important than in static languages
> >>> as they exist at _all_ times: compile load (link) and run.  They are
> >>> _always_ checked _all_ the time.  If you want to say "Ooo!  this has a
> >>> performance hit", fine, but with current systems any such checks are
> >>> basically in the noise.  OTOH, you can annotate a dynamic program with
> >>> static type information and/or use type inference to remove this issue
> >>> from most cases.
> >> 
> >> Jon,
> >> 
> >> I am trying my best to understand you without knowing Lisp, but I
> >> don't. This is the second time you explain this, but you are to
> >> abstract for me.
> > 
> > I'm not sure which part you are having trouble with.  Let's try this
> > (admittedly somewhat handwavy, but intended to help get the ideas):
> > 
> > To a reasonable first approximation:
> > 
> > What is typed?
> > 
> > Static:  Variables and expressions (including literals and variables)
> 
> Come on, values are untyped?

<and a lot more that is not worth bothering with>

You are hopeless


/Jon

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