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by tormeh 3337 days ago
Not really. Without type inference, there's always a pretty short path to the type: For "int x = y" you only have to check that the type of y is int. If you have type inference "int x = y" is a lot harder to validate, because y may have been defined like so "var y = z". So now you have to create some kind of list of variables and their types, start at the ones that are explicitly defined like "int a = b" or "c = 5" and then fill in the types of the rest as you find a reference to the ones you know.