Type coercion and a misguided approach to removing character counts is a pain. It is embarrassing how little of the code I have seen uses type unions either ex

Type coercion and a misguided approach to removing character counts is a pain. It is embarrassing how little of the code I have seen uses type unions either explicitly or implicitly. How often crucial checks and balances are removed for example or test code. How often copy and paste is used over abstract. This is an embarrassment to all of us, and I am not sure that it is absent from my work.