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Re:Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints t... by loup-vaillant on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:45AM (#28918648)
> This still technically reduces the generality of the given function

My point was that we are almost never hurt by that reduction.

> you are specifying that each function cannot have multiple overloads

Haskell has type classes, and if we restrict ourselves to local type inference it's fairly easy to have C++ style overloads without even that. So no, I'm not specifying such a thing.

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