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Subject: Re: In precision typing we trust
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:07:58 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2025-08-28 01:12, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Python does not allow resume semantics for exceptions. Otherwise the
>> function would have continued executing, which it did not.
> 
> It continued. The function returned Null_Object and flagged an active
> exception state.

You are confusing the internal workings of the implementation with the 
actual language semantics.

> See
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/exceptions.html
> 
> for how Python works.

Think of that as the dumbed-down explanation, for those who can only think 
in terms of conventional languages like C, C++ or Ada. If that’s all you 
can handle ... well, you do you.

>>> Hint: You cannot define the type semantics of a function in an untyped
>>> language. That is just what untyped means.
>> 
>> Not sure why that’s relevant,
> 
> It is, because typed means in particular definite types of subprogram
> arguments and results.

Python arguments and results are always of a definite type.