A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C

Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by Strilanc on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:01AM (#6905965)

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I definitely prefer static typing over dynamic typing. I don't really mind duck typing so much as I mind dynamic duck typing (for example I like how Go does duck typing).

I do try to mention that preference for static typing in the post a few times, to make it clearer that it's the dynamism that's bothering me (as opposed to the design being wrong).

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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by frou_dh on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:30PM (#6906286)

"static duck typing" AKA structural typing ;-)

Discussions about typing seem pretty fruitless because there are often a lot of people talking past each other because they're not working off of shared definitions of what the terms (typed untyped static dynamic strong weak) actually mean.

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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by Strilanc on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:47PM (#6906348)

I generally assume people will understand static/dynamic as 'type associated with variable' vs 'type associated with value'.

But you're dead on about strong/weak. You may get away with stronger and weaker, but strong and weak have no widely agreed upon meaning w.r.t. types.

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