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Subject: Re: In precision typing we trust
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:30:21 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn’t your test harness have had something like
>> 
>>     assert isinstance(result_of_test, bool), \
> 
> Nope. The Python interpreter should, at a minimum, have done that as
> part of its implementation of the if statement.

Yes, the issue with the if-statement condition not being required to be of 
a boolean type.

Python types are dynamic. So you need to check them at run-time. That goes 
with the territory.

> But you already understood that much; you're just wilfully refusing to
> get the point.

Now you’re trying to make this into some kind of personal thing. Stop it.

> A better design would have checked the type at compile time.

Remember Alan Kay’s dictum: “Simple things should be simple, and complex 
things should be possible”.

Ada may be helpful with keeping complex things manageable. But Python 
helps keep simple things simple, in a way that Ada cannot.