What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?
Michael Selik
michael.selik at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 13:29:53 EDT 2016
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:31 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info>
wrote:
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> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html
Great link. I enjoyed the video, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-Bb-D6teE
Buried deep in the QA section, there's a comment from the audience (I'll
paraphrase), that compiler type-checking is wonderful. Yegge replies that, "I
realized early in my career that I would actually rather have a runtime
error than a compile error."
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