>It's that you can write functions that explicitly accept arguments that can be of several possible (carefully specified) types, without messing around with kludges like class inheritance.
NB, every statically typed language more recent than C allows for this. (Even C++, via overloading and templates, and C++ is way behind the state of the art in static type systems.)
Posted Jan 15, 2009 22:00 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
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Aw, and that already was a pretty polite and respectful discussion,
especially compared to some others...
Python slithers into Wesnoth
Posted Jan 15, 2009 22:58 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
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I've read your comment several times, and maybe I'm just being slow today, but I can't figure out what you're implying :-). (Was that intending criticism, compliment, random observation, posted in the wrong place...? I'm lost!)
Python slithers into Wesnoth
Posted Jan 16, 2009 16:01 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
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I thought the qt is lgpl discussion on lwn was pretty respectful and flamefree compared to some
other discussions I've read recently.