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From: Kevin Chadwick <kc-usenet@chadwicks.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: In precision typing we trust
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:01:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On 26/08/2025 17:48, Paul Rubin wrote:
>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> Yep, as you can pass everything to anything:
>>
>> def F(X):
>>    X = X + 1
>> F(F)
>
>> Very, very strong typing!
>
>==>  TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'function' and 'int'
>
>The typechecking is done at runtime, just like it says on the tin.

Wouldn't that make Python slow and unreliable?

One of the reasons I switched to Ada from Go was all the potential stdlib
 panics.

Regards, Kc