dub: should we make it the de jure package manager for D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:40:30 +0100
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 15:17 -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> […]
> > that it's dynamic. It shouldn't be possible to do things like
> > change the type of a variable based on whether an if condition was
> > true or not (or change the type of a variable at all for that
> > matter). I use python at work when I need to use a scripting
> > language, because it's the best option that I have there, but
> > otherwise, I'd just use D.
> […]
> 
> The type of variables in Python do not change. Python is a strongly
> typed language. The type of all variables is pointer to object.
> 

Technically, yes, but the *effect* is the same as:

int foo;
if(cond)
	foo = "Whee!! This is SOOOO useful for things
	*other* than generating bugs!";