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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by willtim on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:44AM (#23637590)
If languages adopted structural typing, rather than nominal as the default, then it would be much easier to align the types (e.g. projection/renaming of columns). Most FP languages have a limited form of structural typing with tuples.
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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by orbifold on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:39AM (#23638700)
Objects in OCaml are structurally typed as well.
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