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by xrd 2815 days ago
This. "Static typing fans hardly ever acknowledge how difficult the types make it to read the code. Too much focus on that one time when someone made a typo and there was no unit test." Well said.
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Same question to you, what do you find difficult to read in the code that I posted in the previous comment?
And, point well made about not needing to know the types but still getting compile assistance because of the types.
Hey, sorry, I meant to post my comment into the parent comment of yours. I didnt mean to state your code was difficult to read, I was thinking of all the Java code I've seen over the years...