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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by mrkgnao on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:51PM (#14677827)
I'm pretty sure that's just "administrative" and imposed by the syntax (e.g. think Java/C++ function declaration syntax), instead of being something the compiler can't infer. Thanks for clearing this up, though.
Re:Why We Chose Typescript by steveklabnik on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:10PM (#14677903)
It was a design decision, yes. We could infer them if we wanted to, but we don't.