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Date Wed, 5 Mar 2014 01:17:43 +1100
Subject Re: Functional programming
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/03/2014 13:30, BartC wrote:
>>
>>
>> But declaring variables is not just about specifying a type; it registers
>> the name too so that misspelled names can be picked up very early rather
>> than at runtime (and that's if you're lucky).
>>
>
> I've said before that this, to me, is one of the major downsides of dynamic
> typing.  Once a statically typed language has been compiled the programmer
> can head down to the pub.  The programmer using dynamically typed languages
> has to hang around doing long, boring, tedious testing.  Unless they're
> using an IDE like Pydev and have Pylint turned on so it picks up errors as
> they type, in which case they can also head down to the pub.

Type declarations are orthogonal to that. ECMAScript, as mentioned,
just has 'var'. If it didn't have the implicit variables rule
(anything not explicitly declared goes onto the primary object), it'd
give you exactly that functionality, without any type checking at all.

And there's not "static" and "dynamic". It's a spectrum. Each time you
move one direction, you gain a set of potential bugs that the language
can detect; each time you move the other direction, you save on
keyboarding. But at no time do you truly get away from the need to
test, because anything non-trivial can't be proven by the language
anyway.

ChrisA

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  Re: Functional programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 03:45 -0800
    Re: Functional programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 23:20 +1100
      Re: Functional programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 05:48 -0800
        Re: Functional programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 05:51 -0800
        Re: Functional programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 01:00 +1100
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              Re: Functional programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 06:38 -0800
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                Re: Functional programming Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-04 05:35 +0000
                Re: Functional programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 21:59 -0800
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                Re: Functional programming Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-03-04 11:56 +0100
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                Re: OT Sine Rule [was Re: Functional programming] Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-04 14:42 +0000
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                Re: Functional programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 02:13 +1100
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