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minus-squareEthan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.
minus-squarejcg@halubilo.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoWhat’s a sane, dynamically typed language?
minus-squareLime66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoAny of them which are still strongly typed. Just because a language doesn’t check for type errors before runtime doesn’t mean it won’t check at all
Sure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.
What’s a sane, dynamically typed language?
Any of them which are still strongly typed. Just because a language doesn’t check for type errors before runtime doesn’t mean it won’t check at all