Re:How deep are your unit tests?
by TeMPOraL on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:48AM
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In dynamic languages? Sure they may. The PHP script you thought works crashes, the Lisp routine out of the sudden enters the debugger, things like that.
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The question isn't what "may" happen, but what routinely does happen for you.
If typos are even a significant problem in your code then the solution is to type more slowly, have your IDE flag unknown symbols, use autocomplete, etc. As a solution to this problem, strong typing is both disproportionate and inadequate.