On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:55:43 -0500 (CDT), Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Nick Dokos wrote: > > > is certainly a lot of room for disagreement, but Python, in particular, > > has a fairly strict type system. It is dynamic (execution-time) > > So how do I, in Python, declare that variable 'foo' > must only ever be an integer. Then, when my program > accidentally tries to assign a string, unicode string, > tuple, list, or class instance -- I want it to throw a > compile-time error. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Read careful, Nick explicitly wrote 'dynamic' (execution time) ... Don't confuse 'static typing' with 'strong typing'. Most, if not all, modern "scripting" languages have far more typechecking than POC. > How do I do that? In the (possible) absence of a compiler you don't, HTH Ralf Mattes > -gabriel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg rm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user