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Last active May 11, 2024 02:23
What I want from a Type System
The question was asked why I (as a programmer who prefers dynamic languages) don't consider static types "worth it". Here
is a short list of what I would need from a type system for it to be truely useful to me:
1) Full type inference. I would really prefer to be able to write:
(defn concat-names [person]
(assoc person :full-name (str (:first-name person)
(:second-name person))))
And have the compiler know that whatever type required and produced from this function was acceptible as long as the