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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:08:04 -0600
From: Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu>
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On 12/17/2011 21:03, Evan Driscoll wrote:
> Personally I'd put Python even weaker on account of things such as
> '[1,2]*2' and '1 < True' being allowed, but on the other hand it
> doesn't allow "1"+1.

Not to mention duck typing, which under my definition I'd argue is
pretty much the weakest of typing that you can apply to structure-like
types which I can think of.

Evan



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