[plt-scheme] Why do folks implement *dynamically* typed languages?

On May 30, 2007, at 8:22 PM, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> There's no
> reason not to have a type that describes a variable that can have any
> value whatsoever, together with run-time type information, together  
> with
> the suite of operations you need to make it useful.  The thing to know
> is that an _int_ value many be a very different thing from an _any_
> value that happens to be an integer.


Do you mean type Dynamic? -- Matthias