[Types-sig] Static typing considered HARD

[Uche Ogbuji]

David Ascher wrote:
> > Is their problem performance or defect-management?  Again, there is an
> > important difference.  I agree that typing can help the former: I am
> > doubtful that it is a panacea for the latter.
> 
> The latter.  The quote (paraphrased from memory) is "When someone changes
> a function interface, there's no way to know if we've caught all of the
> calls to that function in the tens of thousands of line of code that we
> have except to run the code'.

Have they heard of Bertrand Meyer's open/closed principle?  As I
suspected, the root problem is poor software engineering, and has little
to do with Python.


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