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by crgwbr 314 days ago
Python type hints are hugely valuable both as a means of correctness checking, but also just as a means of documentation. It strikes me as incredibly shortsighted to say you can forget about types just because it’s a dynamic language. The types are absolutely still there and need thought about. They just aren’t defined or used in terms of allocation and management of memory.
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david422 314 days ago
> The types are absolutely still there and need thought about

Yes, if they aren't in the code, it just means the programmer has figure out and carry that around mentally when reading or writing code.

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eduardofcgo 314 days ago
Usually with OOP several builders are composed together to express the creation of some data. These builders have functions with types, which define the rules for the creation of the objects.

My point is that the CarBuilder is not a real type that relates to the business, but something that we had to create to encode some behaviour/rules.

Some function that validates that a dict is a valid car is much more explicit that lots of different builder classes in my opinion.

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