Prosthetic Conscience

The futility of adding static typing to a dynamic language

Re: the threat of optional static type declarations being added to Python, a Smalltalk programmer chimes in. Basically, the argument is that type-checking, to actually be useful, needs the expressiveness that only exists at runtime. My take is that to do this properly in Python, you should use a function decorator to check that the arguments to your function are acceptable.

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