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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by austinz on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @08:33PM (#7843471)
Lots of people are having a hard time understanding the difference between dynamic typing and static typing with type inference.
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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by mikeash on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @08:53PM (#7843519)
Definitely. I suppose it's understandable if this is your first exposure to type inference. Superficially it looks exactly like the "assign anything to anything" languages like Python or JavaScript.
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