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Re: dynamic typing, part 3

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From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 14:47
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In article <KJX.91Apr10012252@turakirae.comp.vuw.ac.nz> kjx@comp.vuw.ac.nz (R James Noble) writes:
> Obviously, even in so-called statically-typed languages, division and
> array indexing can produce runtime errors that could be considered
> type errors (on the variable foo, especially if it had a subrange type).

And they could also be considered exceptions, which are not type errors.
I'm not sure what people are trying to prove with this division example.

---Dan
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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: dynamic typing, part 3
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