Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

Tue Jul 17 10:23:30 EDT 2012

On 17/07/12 14:52, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article<-8SdnVrXGqie25jNnZ2dnUVZ7qKdnZ2d at bt.com>,
> Lipska the Kat<lipska at lipskathekat.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not used to using variables without declaring their type
>> If you truly wanted to recreate this type-bondage style of programming
> in Python, it's easy enough to do.

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Well 'type-bondage' is a strange way of thinking about compile time type 
checking and making code easier to read (and therefor debug) but
I'm not about to get into some religious war about declaring a variables 
type. I'll just say that I prefer to devote testing efforts to the real 
danger area which in my experience is 'user' input.
Clients look dimly on runtime errors however they occur and if I can 
leave it to the compiler to check as much as possible then I'll take that.
I do understand however that compiling an intepreted language doesn't 
really make sense however i'm sure there are interpreted languages that 
allow pre-execution type checking ... aren't there ? Oh yes, there's one 
called Java :-)
Still, I'm sure you're only kidding around with me :-)
Lipska
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