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Re:Joy: Web framework with Clojure syntax, fast startup and ... by jgalt212 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:00AM (#23051818)
Isn't spec just a way to bolt on types to a dynamic language? And if you look at this way, can one have its cake and eat it too?
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Re:Joy: Web framework with Clojure syntax, fast startup and ... by nickik on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:30PM (#23053387)
Thinking about Spec like a type-system is really not the right way to think. Its more dynamic validation system that works like regex for data-structures.
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Re:Joy: Web framework with Clojure syntax, fast startup and ... by jgalt212 on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:23AM (#23067082)
unless you think about types the way Haskell does.
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