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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject: Re: in praise of type checking
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On 10/6/2011 2:33 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I changed the result of a widely used method from boolean to int.  The
> neat thing was the compiler (actually the Intellij syntax checker)
> made sure I fixed up every invocation of that method. It would not let
> me forget even  one.
>
> Imagine a language with loosey goosey type checking where it was
> entirely up to you entirely to ensure all the invocations were
> corrected.  [...]

     Are you speaking of Python, or of Lisp?

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Eric Sosman
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