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by mseepgood 844 days ago
Can you explain the thought process of a developer when they write 'performOperation(2)'? What do they believe '2' signifies in this context? I struggle to believe that this could occur by accident.
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avgcorrection 844 days ago
You struggle to imagine a programmer passing a value of the wrong type to a function?
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bb88 844 days ago
Or passing a wrong value and the compiler allows it because the programmer trusted the compiler to "always do the right thing".
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