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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 31,497)
Message-ID: <26043:Apr1909:08:0291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 09:08:02 GMT
References: <2024@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <3086@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> <OLSON.91Apr18021608@lear.juliet.ll.mit.edu>
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In article <OLSON.91Apr18021608@lear.juliet.ll.mit.edu> olson@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Steve Olson) writes:
> char *rv;
> rv = mmap( ..... );
> if ( rv == (char *)-1) {
> Hmm, rv is either a pointer or a flag value ... and you tell 'em apart at
> run time ... dynamic typing!

Exception handling is hardly dynamic typing.

---Dan