How To Dynamic Web Rendering?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
news:iqjer9$1mai$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 13/05/2011 08:09, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>
>> How is it working out with a static type system, compared to a dynamic,
>> for web development?
>
> How many times, while using a dynamically typed language, do you ever 
> change the type of a variable? I've written a fair amount of PHP, and I 
> rarely, if ever want my string to suddenly become an integer (if I do it 
> generally needs validation/conversion anyway). When using my own and 
> others code I frequently see type checks/conversions etc, it just makes 
> the code ugly - with a staticly typed system you remove this overhead.
>
> Also, there's the auto keyword, and easily accessible function templates.
>

And templates for when you want a function to accept multiple types, and 
Variant for the few times when changing a variable's type might actually be 
useful.