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Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic

17 replies on 2 pages. Most recent reply: Aug 4, 2004 8:42 PM by Chris Dutton

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Isaac Gouy

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Re: Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic Posted: Mar 28, 2004 11:53 AM
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confusion lurks around the concepts of static/dynamic and strong/weak typing

Humbly suggest from the evidence of that comp.lang.python discussion, you in particular were confused.

Consult a reference work like:

"Type Systems"
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cardelli97type.html

"Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation"
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

Trent d'Arby

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Re: Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic Posted: May 14, 2004 6:55 AM
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Good definitions.

Chris Dutton

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Re: Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic Posted: Aug 4, 2004 8:42 PM
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> typed - languages where variables can be given types
> untyped - languages that do not restrict the range of
> variables

If I may suggest, you refer only to typing as pertains to "variables" (presumably meaning the names bound to values), and not the values themselves.

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