> Nothing is stopping languages from allowing both Nothing stops pigs from flying either... hypothetically, but they don't, and languages don't, so debating wh

> Nothing is stopping languages from allowing both Nothing stops pigs from flying either... hypothetically, but they don't, and languages don't, so debating what they could do is rather pointless, they don't. > how often is code made worse because you have to write multiple Max implementations Similar situations occur quite often. > I doubt that there's many instances where such repetition is necessary, or can't be mitigated with wrapper functions. That they have to be mitigated is the point, I don't have to do stuff like this at all in a dynamic language, things just work.