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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by crdoconnor on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:11PM (#15387494)
>or the author of the library for bad design

That's the one. That's a damned stupid decision.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by UncleMeat on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:43PM (#15388216)
Yeah and a static type system refuses to let you make such a stupid decision. When interoperating with code I didn't write, knowing that the code is guaranteed to conform to some specification is valuable.
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