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Article #3407RE: Dynamic typing (part 3)
From: David Gudeman
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1991 00:58
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1991 00:58
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In article <6APR91.10374005@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes: ]... ]"Dynamic typing is when the most efficient of the available primitive ]machine representation for some value(s) is chosen at run-time." I don't like that definition at all. In the first place, it is an implementation-based definition rather than a semantic one. In the second place, I don't know of any dynamically typed language that claims to choose the "most efficient ... representation" -- they choose a convenient representation. -- David Gudeman gudeman@cs.arizona.edu noao!arizona!gudeman
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