Type Inference Was a Mistake
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On type inference as an academic computer science lab leak.
  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You know what really sucks?

    When I have a method that returns a Foo and like 300 places it gets called.

    And then I change it to return an ever so slightly different Bar

    Ah, now I need to go and update the code in 300 places cause the return type changed.

    “Can’t you just sed your codebase?”

    Maybe, but it could cause some serious unintended dawizard