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Static typing is a godsend when you're working with code that you only vaguely remember from the last time you worked with it a year ago. It also gives me much
by jemfinch 14y ago
Static typing is a godsend when you're working with code that you only vaguely remember from the last time you worked with it a year ago. It also gives me much more confidence when refactoring: the compiler will find the callsites I missed.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoC++ also has a great feature which a lot of more modern languages (Java, Python) have forgotten about: const correctness. class Foo { type_t getValue() const; } When I call foo.getValue(), I can be certain [1] that foo has not been mutated. [1] In C++, things like memset((void*)this, val, 1024) are always possible.
- heretohelp 14y ago>const correctness I love that C++ programmers still believe in the false gods of the const keyword. Zen: reflect upon the meaning of a const volatile pointer. -> exits stage right
- herval 14y agoWon't proper testing help on that matter too? I've worked on rather big projects in Ruby and Javascript, and testing always managed to keep things sane. Static typing helps you refactor things or make sure certain variables are the correct type, but in the grand scheme of things, I'm not sure type casting is the major source of bugs/errors in any system