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Article #3193Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 22:39
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 22:39
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In article <22MAR91.22190193@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes: > >If you need the semantics of eval, you need an interpreted (or incrementally > >compiled) language. As a counterexample, Forth provides for this tool > >but is not a dynamically typed language in any sense of the word. > True, but I'm not sure it's very statically typed either. It's weakly statically typed. Basically, it has two types, the character and the cell. You can build more complex types with <builds-does> or whatever the latest fashionable term for that is, but it remains statically typed. Of course you can build a dynamically typed language on top of it with appropriate definitions... but the basic language is weakly and statically typed. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3) Message-ID: <539AQS3@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <731@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Mar20.185308.8275@maths.nott.ac.uk> <22MAR91.09242511@uc780.umd.edu> <3E6A.I9@xds13.ferranti.com> <22MAR91.22190193@uc780.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 22:39:53 GMT