Re: Thoughts and proposals about types and classes

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Thu, 09 Sep 93 10:02:00 PDT

Error checking (type checking) in code that retrieves information from
outside a program seems perfectly valid (user or file input). Type checking
to catch programming errors seems counter productive, especially if the
error messages are going to be meaningless to the end-user (here the
end-user is *not* the programmer). Python does a reasonably job to track
down programming errors (the stack trace).

$0.02

-Jaap-