Programming Languages

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This community is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages.

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Type inference was a mistake (borretti.me)

submitted 7 months ago by SuperFola to c/programming_languages

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If it returned a "Foo", whose structure changes in such a way as to requires changes in all places it was used...

That, sounds to me like a disaster you avoided by being helped (which is the polite way to describe developers not getting away with ignoring lazy and dangerous type conversion bugs) to fix each and every usage of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, there's countless ways code could be consuming a Foo or Bar and not care which.

Literally any form of serialization won't care, for example.

Also you can change from a Foo to a Bar in a non breaking manner, where it's name changed but the still have the same interface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're talking about type inference, right?

If you have countless examples, I'd be happy to entertain others that have to do with type inference, because 1) serialisation is not related, 2) renaming in APIs is arguably, also not. Though, I cannot remember the last time my IDE wasn't able to know, and do this for me.