Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)

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1 total messages Started by David Gudeman Thu, 02 May 1991 18:47

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Author: David Gudeman
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 18:47

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In article  <STEPHEN.91May2030111@estragon.uchicago.edu> Stephen P Spackman writes:
]In article <2450@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
]|...  Dynamic
]|typing means that it is not generally possible to assign a machine
]|representation to the values that will be returned by all syntactic
]|expressions.  You can still get strong typing in this case by
]|including type information with the data at runtime.

]This statement confuses the *hell* out of me.

This response confuses the hell out of me.

]DYNAMIC typing uses tags always,

What did you think I meant by "including the type information at
runtime"?
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					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
noao!arizona!gudeman

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