Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."
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Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

From: Paul Rubin <//phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 14:30:56 CEST

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets@web.de> writes:
> - FPs share their own set of problems - try writing a server. The
> have inherent troubles with event-driven programs.

Erlang?

> Still, FP is cool. But python too. And just attaching some
> type-inference to python won't work.

Yeah, I've figured declarations in Python would be more like Common
Lisp's, i.e. optional, enforced at compile time only when the compiler
can easily figure it out, and at runtime otherwise.
Received on Sat Oct 15 04:15:37 2005