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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by macspoofing on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:52PM (#15386739)
>putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a noticeable amount of overhead

Yes. We call that 'typing'.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by discreteevent on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:58PM (#15388315)
And it takes less typing (keyboard) than the assert, and you get free documentation inline with the code!
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