Re: Rather, DSSLs increase modularity, productivity

[Daniel Silva <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Bob Cassels wrote:
> mvanier@cs.caltech.edu wrote:
>
> >The universe of the scripting language and the universe of the
> >non-scripting language.  In Dylan, the difference is blurry to
> >non-existent.  "Script" code is just regular code without type annotations,
> >whereas "non-script" code has those annotations.
> >[...]
> >If I look at all the python scripts I've written, nearly ALL of them could
> >have been written in a statically-typed language.  Python is extremely
> >dynamic, but I've rarely needed to use that power.  But that's just my
> >experience.
> >
>
> I'm not a Python expert, just a casual user.  But I don't see why
> someone couldn't add (optional) type declarations to Python, with
> Dylan-ish semantics.  Then you could do Dylan-style compilation and get
> better performance for your Python.

Because you can do this:

class C(object): pass
class D(object): pass
myc = C()
print myc              # <C object>
myc.__class__ = D
print myc              # <D object>


Daniel