Re:The power of Result types in Swift
by wool_gather on Sunday June 17, 2018 @07:55PM
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I assume you mean the static typing that Swift has, in favor of something like Python or Ruby, where the type of thing in a variable is both implicit and unfixed. Saying that there should be no types at all is...well, maybe it's just a failure of my imagination, but I don't even know how you could write a program. Even assembler has types.
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Well I think basic data types are enough to express what the variable is expected to hold. Any highewr level types above that, such as what higher level languages provide are, I think a luxury for lazy programmers