Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:00:04 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:07:20PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > In contrast, with a dynamically typed language, the type of a
> > variable can actually change while your program is running,
> > resulting in function calls being wrong due to the fact that they
> > don't work with the new type. If you're dealing with static typing,
> > the type of every variable is fixed, and the legality of code
> > doesn't suddenly change at runtime.
> 
> 	bool func(Variant x, Variant y) {
> 		return x < y;
> 	}
> 
> 	func(1, 2);	// ok
> 	func(1.0, 2.0);	// ok
> 	func("a", 1);	// hmmm... ;-)
> 

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@route('/foo')
def index():
	response.content_type = response
	return 'Take that, HTTP!!'

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