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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: The search for heterogeneous lists is still on!
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Date: 3 Apr 91 21:01:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.013413.8428@neon.Stanford.EDU> hoelzle@neon.Stanford.EDU (Urs Hoelzle) writes:
>new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>>printf's implementation has all the drawbacks of dynamic
>>typing [...] misinterpretation of bits [...]

>In any case, printf is an example of weak typing, not dynamic typing.

Good point.  It is, however, an example of hetrogeneous lists.  
"Misinterpretation of bits" in a static type language is similar to
"message not found" in dynamic type languages like Smalltalk.
That is, after all, what "message not found" means: that you tried
to interpret "true" as an integer and "+" wasn't defined.
Of course, since C is staticly typed, the analogy will be flawed.
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