Diminishing returns of static typing

Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by Ace17 on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:31PM (#15385906)

Actually, refactoring browsers were pioneered by Smalltalk people.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by hinkley on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:44PM (#15388222)

And smalltalk had to leave trampolines in place to deal with renames that it couldn't finish deterministically. No thank you.

Nobody ever talks about that little horror when they bring up how Smalltalk could to refactoring JUST FINE without static types. It wasn't just fine, turns out.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by imtringued on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:33PM (#15387163)

I don't understand this argument.

In smalltalk the parameter names are part of the function name to reduce the likelyhood of name clashes. You still have the same problem when you have two functions with the same name and parameters.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by josephv on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:42PM (#15387757)

You understand, someone will always claim that everything was invented by smalltalk at some point.

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