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Re:I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride by bfrog on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#22445072)
name shadowing isn't the same as strong typing, you can do the same thing in rust today

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

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Re:I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride by hope-striker on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:27PM (#22445553)
Reassignment isn't shadowing. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22444824 .
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Re:I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride by joshuamorton on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:03PM (#22445835)
Steve's wrong. Python names can't be made mutable.
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