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Static vs. dynamic

Static vs. dynamic

Posted Mar 28, 2009 23:43 UTC (Sat) by sergey (guest, #31763)
In reply to: Static vs. dynamic by pboddie
Parent article: A look at Parrot 1.0

> For example, dynamic definition of classes has never really been very useful for me, so if that went away and enabled better program analysis, I'd be quite pleased with the compromise.

I just had to go through the exercise of choosing a Python SOAP client library, and most deserving ones all use dynamically defined classes. The morale is, these dynamic features are there for a reason, please don't touch them.


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