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Re:Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation by rob74 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:37AM (#22308307)
Small nitpick: in a statically typed language, you don't have "type annotations", since an annotation is usually optional. If you're talking about a function declaration, I think it's called a parameter declaration?
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Re:Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation by dpratt71 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:09AM (#22308481)
Small nitpick: some statically typed programming languages have optional type annotations.
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Re:Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation by mappu on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:03PM (#22311670)
You're right, that is the word I was looking for.
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