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Type inference was a mistake

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Type inference was a mistake

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Programming Languages@programming.devEnglish · 8 months ago

Type Inference Was a Mistake

On type inference as an academic computer science lab leak.

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That’s false for closures (or unnamed/inline) functions with context because their type is unique and so you just can’t write their type and that’s not a lang’s fault - that’s logically correct side-effect by-design.

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