dynamic-typing

How to deal with Python ~ static typing?

I am from Java world and I wonder what is so great about dynamic typing in Python besides missing errors while compiling the code? Do you like Python's typing? Do you have an example where it helped in a big project? Isn't it a bit error prone? ...

HaXe -- create an instance of a class from a string name

Let's say i acquire the name of a class that i made as a String. How can i Instantiate the class with the name contained in that string? I I know it will be derived from a certain parent class, but the actual class will vary. ...

Is it possible to get design-time code completion for dynamic types?

I'm looking into generating types dynamically, ie. TypeBuilder, Reflection.Emit.. Is it ever possible to get design-time code completion for such created types? i.e typename recognition, list of properties after typing "obj1." and such. Full Context: Trying to generate entities and data access objects corresponding to database tables in...

Dynamically selecting different viewControllers

I've got a problem that I think is probably straight forward but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. I've got a tableview that loads from an array of NSDictionaries. Each Dictionary has a title (shown in the row) and an associated nssstring representing a viewcontroller that should be pushed onto the stack when the row is selected....