38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by dasm on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:34PM (#19131636)

I have very strong opinions on docstrings; they are simple to implement and completely solve this issue.

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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by macintux on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:36PM (#19131645)

I wouldn’t say “completely”, because they’re not guaranteed to be accurate, even when first created, much less down the road.

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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by yyyymmddhhmmss on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:36PM (#19131869)

Listing arguments and their types in docstrings always feels likea bad idea for this reason.

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