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Re: How to pass class instance to a method?

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Date Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:58:47 -0500
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On 11/26/2012 03:51 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> In a dynamically-typed language such as Python, the set of acceptable
>> types for an argument is determined by the operations which the function
>> performs on it. This is in direct contrast to a statically-typed language,
>> where the set of acceptable operations on an argument is determined by the
>> type of the argument.
> Not how I would put it.  In a statically typed language, types are
> checked at compile-time (which does not necessarily imply that useful
> type information can be made available to an IDE), whereas in a
> dynamically typed language, some or all type checking is deferred to
> run-time.

Not how I would put it.  In a statically typed language, the valid types
are directly implied by the function parameter declarations, while in a
dynamic language, they're defined in the documentation, and only
enforced (if at all) by the body of the function.


-- 

DaveA

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How to pass class instance to a method? ALeX inSide <alex.b.inside@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 04:11 -0800
  Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-25 12:37 +0000
  Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2012-11-26 11:22 +1300
  Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-26 11:08 +0100
  Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-11-26 16:56 +0000
    Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 13:51 -0700
    Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-26 16:58 -0500
      Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-26 22:18 +0000
        Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-26 22:14 -0500
          Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-27 04:10 +0000
            Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-26 23:25 -0500
            Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-27 00:18 -0500
    Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 16:07 -0700
      Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-27 01:36 +0100
    Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-26 21:50 -0500
  Re: How to pass class instance to a method? Drew <r.drew.davis@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 17:14 -0800

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