Re: how to prevent bugs without static type checking?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net> writes:
> - Unless you document very well your data structure (I guess you do),
> and document well the type of your parameters, etc., it can be hard to
> use the API.

Yup.

I tend to think of types in variable/field/parameter declarations (in
statically-typed languages) as _documentation_, which helps me
understand the program when reading other people's code, my old code,
etc.

The consistency-checking by the compiler is nice too of course... :]

-miles

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