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Re:Parse, Don’t Validate by ttty on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:28PM (#21479257)
No need to scroll. If you use a modern ide you can just hold Ctrl and hover the variable with your mouse.
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Re:Parse, Don’t Validate by DonaldFisk on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:57PM (#21479635)
That still wouldn't work for dynamically typed languages.
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Re:Parse, Don’t Validate by squeaky-clean on Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:38PM (#21479784)
Maybe not something like Lisp but languages such as JS, Python, and Ruby have advanced enough tooling available that would easily identify this.
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Re:Parse, Don’t Validate by marcosdumay on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:42AM (#21481701)
That's why the claim that it's an advantage of statically typed languages.
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