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Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by OskarS on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:02AM (#15713110)
This particular language quirk I don't think has anything to do with dynamic typing: it's equally annoying in C-style languages where 3/2 and 3/2.0 mean different things.
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Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by dagw on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:26AM (#15713353)
sure, but in C if you have a line that looks like

   z = 3/y
you'll know that y is either always a float or always an int depending on its type and thus you'll 'know' what z is.
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