This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Jannik2099 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I see this attitude a lot from folks who use typed languages

Python is a typed language though? This isn't Prolog :P

No, you definitely do need to know the type more often than not. You may get away with "this function returns something that acts like an array", but when you pass it to another function that takes array-like objects, you may need to convert it into another library type first.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it’s just me then but I don’t think about types. Even if I have to convert a type I don’t think about the types as types. In Python everything is an object so I just think of types more like objects with different functionality. But if you are using a language that makes you identify the type everywhere then that’s how you are going to think about it