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Subject: RE: Dynamic typing (part 31,497)
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Dan Bernstein writes:
	
>Exception handling is hardly dynamic typing.

You mean because it doesn't require type tags?  Or maybe because it
has hardware support for some cases, on some machines?

Maybe I'm not totally clear on the conceptual difference between
checking for index-out-of-bounds on an array, and checking for
arithmetic overflow on some arithmetic calculation?

As near as I can figure, exception handling is a special case of
dynamic typing.

Raul Rockwell