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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 18:44:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Bools and explicitness [was Re: PyWart: The problem with "print"]
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>> Python has seduced us all into lazy typing.  That's what it is.
>
> Bulshytt. If you have no idea what polymorphism is, you shouldn't even
> be participating in this conversation.

I am aware of what it means, but Python doesn't really have it
(although it may evolve to it with annotations).  But then these
debates were over a decade ago.

MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington