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On 6/5/2013 2:11 AM, Russ P. wrote:

> But then, what would you expect of a language that allows you to
> write
>
> x = 1
 > x = "Hello"
>
> It's all loosey goosey -- which is fine for many applications but
> certainly not for critical ones.

I believe Shedskin, a Python *subset* compiler*, will reject that, 
because it compiles ints to C ints. Some code checkers might too.