From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T02:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

Hello Austin,

Sorry to say this, but instead of writing so much text please
sit down and read the Common Lisp specification (google for it,
it is written by Guy Steel and available on the net). Then come back
and think again if you really want to be more dogmatic then the pope.

Most of your arguments are simply wrong because we are not talking
about type systems (which have a closed model of types). Instead we
are talking about heuristics and a choice of what fits best for a
certain situation. And yes sometimes this is statically typed.
In Lisp you can have both, with the implementation sideeffect that the
later is checked only at runtime and may crash the whole system
because it is only assumed but not checked (speed higher priority then
safety).


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