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Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi)

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi)
Date	2025-12-19 20:58 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<10i4e92$1f2vl$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(19 earlier) <10ghqrq$g7pg$1@dont-email.me> <wwvy0nma8fp.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <693d5437$0$2499$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10hl622$jeli$11@dont-email.me> <slrn10kakjl.14g1t.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid>

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:05 this Sunday (GMT):
>>
>> Think about why both JavaScript and PHP need a “===” operator, while 
>> Python does not.
>>
>> It’s because Python is strongly typed.
> 
> I thought it was because JS was too liberal with type-casting to make
> things true, and the JS devs didn't want to break compatibility.

Is there some other interpretation of “strongly typed”?

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Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-14 02:05 +0000
  Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-12-19 13:30 +0000
    Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-19 20:58 +0000
      Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-20 05:48 +0000
    Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-20 10:12 +0000
      Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-20 05:25 -0500
        Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:22 +0000
      Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 22:28 +0000
      Re: Python (was Re: Recent history of vi) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:25 +0000

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