Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
On the other hand, with the dynamic typing mindset, you might even wrap
your values (of whatever numerical type) in a symbolic expression
mentionning the unit and perhaps other meta data, so that when the other
module receives it, it may notice (dynamically) that two
Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/30/10 05:57 PM, RG wrote:
I'm not saying one should not use compile-time tools, only that one
should not rely on them. "Compiling without errors" is not -- and
cannot ever be -- be a synonym for "bug-free."
We is why we all have run time tools called unit tests, don't
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Squeamizh writes:
In short, static typing doesn't solve all conceivable problems.
We are all aware that there is no perfect software development process
or tool set. I'm interested in minimizing the number of problems I
run into during development, and the number