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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by cjs_2 on Monday February 11, 2019 @02:47AM (#19132696)
Isn't this more due to automatic type coercion in the language and not from the lack of types?
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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by hopler on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:35AM (#19134322)
It's conversion, not coercion. Coercion is what C does to crash programs.
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