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Re: What is the purpose of static typing?

Additionally, as a rule of thumb, the more dynamic typing you use, the
more sluggish your user experience will become.

- Philip


On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 07:18 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:00:49PM -0400, email@hidden wrote:
>> Is there any purpose in static typing besides better compile time
>> checking? In other words, would it not be better (for dynamism) to
>> simply declare everything as `id'?
>
> Of course, but you're likely to create many more bugs that way. Even
> Smalltalk IDEs do compile-time checking to see if the methods you're
> invoking are defined somewhere in the image, to avoid typos etc. And
> you'll need some other convention to indicate the expected type of
> methods and instance variables. Personally I like being able to name
> my methods and variables whatever I want, so they don't necessarily
> have to incorporate type information as a matter of convention the way
> they do in Smalltalk.
>
> Use id when you need it, otherwise statically type.
>
> --
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> Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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