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I guess what your parent poster is saying is that: without types, all you have is the variable name to guess what it does. IDEs help but there's only so much
by hu3 4y ago
I guess what your parent poster is saying is that:
without types, all you have is the variable name to guess what it does.
IDEs help but there's only so much they can do.
- wg0 4y agoYes that's what I meant. All you have is a variable and IDEs can't figure it all if there's no type on it. Not just that, let's say even if type is known but some of the methods are generated on runtime than IDE has no idea about it.
- mattbrewsbytes 4y agoThat’s not unique to Ruby though, I imagine most dynamic languages fall into this bucket.
- wg0 4y agoExactly, they do including JavaScript.