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Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Alain Ketterlin
<alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
> Swift's memory management is similar to python's (ref. counting). Which
> makes me think that a subset of python with the same type safety would
> be an instant success.

In the same way that function annotations to give type information
were an instant success?

ChrisA