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by saagarjha 36 days ago
Yes, it simplifies a lot of code that would otherwise be littered with casts.
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peterfirefly 36 days ago
Could be fixed by having a nicer casting syntax (like Rust) or by not having so damn many scalar types that are used in practice.

"Explicit casts only" worked fine in Modula-2, which doesn't have as many scalar types.

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saagarjha 36 days ago
Yeah most modern languages settle on having fewer types that are used most of the time and don't require as many casts.
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