Re: Type hinting
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 27 May 2010 11:56:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Type hinting | ||
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On Thu, 27 May 2010, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 06:59 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> > As far as your example goes consider a function that expects a boolean, but
> > instead gets an int/string/float, which in nearly all cases will result in
> > TRUE. Which is not the desired outcome.
>
> And I think that it will hurt quite a bit if we force our users to take
> care of their types.
*We* don't force anybody. API developers *could potentionally* force
their consumers to take care about their types.
regards,
Derick
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