Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

In a dynamic language it's the values that are typed (at runtime), not variables, functions, etc. I think your interpretation of weak vs. strong is already covered by static vs. dynamic, whereas the other interpretation of weak typing is about silent coercion of types such as in Javascript and PHP where for example an integer can be concatenated to a string, or in C where a string can be interpreted as an integer with a cast.



Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: