“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”

Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by kyllo on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:30PM (#9265335)

Typescript has optical types

What are optical types? I've never heard of this term and Google turned up nothing on it.

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by untog on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:33PM (#9265347)

100% sure it's a typo of "optional types".

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by hibbelig on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @04:23PM (#9265675)

How boring :-) I'd love to look forward to a language with optical types. I'm sure it's at least as interesting as operand overloading in Intercal.

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by hmsimha on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @05:10PM (#9265938)

Optical typing must be like duck typing taken to the extreme. If it looks like a duck then it's a duck, dammit!

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by girvo on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:28PM (#9267023)

Type coercion taken way too far ;)

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by kyllo on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @04:48PM (#9265821)

I was imagining something like Lens in Haskell :)

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by DonHopkins on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:47PM (#9267093)

Optical types are when they shave the bushy hair off of the type system, and it looks an inch longer.

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