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Re:How many lines of code is Candy Japan? by adamnemecek on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:10PM (#12615784)
> One disadvantage is that static typing causes more lines of code than dynamic code.

Not if the statically typed language uses inference.

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Re:How many lines of code is Candy Japan? by sytse on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:18PM (#12615798)
That would be the best of both worlds indeed. Hope we get this for Ruby https://codon.com/consider-static-typing
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Re:How many lines of code is Candy Japan? by saurik on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:12PM (#12619124)
The seminal languages with static typing had this feature, so I feel it does the field a disservice to say "the best of both worlds": there are a few annoyingly popular statically typed languages which don't have this property, and they should be considered deficient to the extent to which it is not for theoretical type depenence reasons.
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