Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Thu, 05 Feb 2015 02:04:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for? | ||
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On Feb 5, 2015 7:58 AM, "Stanislav Malyshev" <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Adding another concept, not changing the existing ones. And really,
> > it's just simplifying what is already present via is_<typename>()
> > runtime checks, making our lives a little bit easier.
>
> There's a very big difference between allowing to check types (and then
> do whatever you wish) and having functions throw fatal errors if types
> do not match.
Totally agree.
However, to be sure everyone understands it, you, as an user of a library
using strict mode, won't see it.
I agree that a library using strict and release untested code may be an
issue, but then it is a bug on the library itself, no biggie to fix.
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> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@gmail.com
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