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A comment on Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond. Parent comment

Re:Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond by s_tec on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:13PM (#18994016)
Exactly. Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C, it looks like `void *`, while in Java, it's `Object`. The `any` keyword is just the latest in a long line of escape hatches. Pretty much every language has one.
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Re:Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond by dragonwriter on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:16PM (#18994030)
> Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C

C is clearly statically typed, but among statically typed language it is quite weakly typed.

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