Robert Kern wrote:
Automatic type inferencing is great, but sometimes the inference is "object". Being able to supply more information about types helps Starkiller keep the inferences tight and specific.
Hmm... I'm not an expert in this subject at all, but I think that when the inference is "object", as you said, is because the type couldn't be inferred so it defaults to object, which is the more general type of all. For example, this is what happens in Boo, which is the only language I know (a little bit) that uses type inference.
Starkiller, at least, can deal with cases where a variable might be one of a set of types and generates code for each of this set. Explicit type declarations can help keep these sets small and reduces the number of times that Starkiller needs to fall back to PyObject_* calls.
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