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Re: in praise of type checking

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: in praise of type checking
Date	2011-10-07 12:43 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:43:04 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>It must not have been that widely used, then, if all the uses were in the o=
>ne project.

It was widely used within the project. It is internal code I use for
generating references to bookstores/books/electronics at various
online stores.

Even if it were widely distributed, and even if it were a public
method, type checking at least warns my clients I have changed the
signature of a public method without warning them. They may want to
shoot me, but at least they know precisely WHY they want to shoot me.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
It should not be considered an error when the user starts something
already started or stops something already stopped. This applies
to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to 
punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone,
e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.

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in praise of type checking Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-05 23:33 -0700
  Re: in praise of type checking Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-06 06:43 -0700
    Re: in praise of type checking Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-10-06 09:52 -0700
    Re: in praise of type checking Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-07 12:43 -0700
      Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-07 14:57 -0700
      Re: in praise of type checking Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-07 20:18 -0400
  Re: in praise of type checking Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-06 22:31 +0200
    Re: in praise of type checking Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-07 12:36 -0700
      Re: in praise of type checking Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-08 16:05 +0200
        Re: in praise of type checking Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-08 09:35 -0700
          Re: in praise of type checking Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-11 07:48 +0200
            Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-11 13:04 -0700
            Re: in praise of type checking Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-11 17:52 -0300
              Re: in praise of type checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-12 01:49 +0100
                Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-11 19:12 -0700
            Re: in praise of type checking Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-11 19:10 -0700
  Re: in praise of type checking Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-06 20:29 -0400
    Re: in praise of type checking Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-06 23:56 -0700
      Re: in praise of type checking Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-10-07 13:57 -0400
  Re: in praise of type checking Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-07 07:19 -0300
    Re: in praise of type checking Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-07 12:39 -0700
      Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-07 15:03 -0700
        Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-11 19:26 +0100
          Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2011-10-12 01:15 -0500
            Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-10-12 07:23 -0700
            Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-12 20:04 +0000
            Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-12 13:53 -0700
              Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2011-10-12 16:55 -0500
                Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-10-12 15:02 -0700
                Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2011-10-13 00:08 -0500
                Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-13 07:48 -0300
                Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-10-14 07:09 -0400
                Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-12 22:03 +0000
            Re: Space probes was Re: in praise of type checking Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-14 14:14 +0100
  Re: in praise of type checking RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-10-07 11:50 +0100
    Re: in praise of [loosey goosey] type checking) RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-10-07 12:20 +0100
  Re: in praise of type checking Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-10-07 14:00 +0000

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