Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

Tue Jul 17 14:43:57 EDT 2012

Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 17/07/2012 18:29, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> On 7/17/2012 10:23 AM, Lipska the Kat wrote:
>>>>>>> Well 'type-bondage' is a strange way of thinking about compile time 
>>>> type
>>>> checking and making code easier to read (and therefor debug
>>>>>> 'type-bondage' is the requirement to restrict function inputs and
>>> output to one declared type, where the type declaration mechanisms are
>>> usually quite limited.
>>>>>> >>> def max(a, b):
>>> if a <= b: return a
>>> return b
>>>>>> Surely you meant 'if a >= b: . . .'
>>>> No worries, I'm sure your unittests would have caught it. ;)
>>>> ~Ethan~
>> Wouldn't the compiler have caught it before the unittests? :-)

Silly me, the word processor would have caught it!
~Ethan~