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Typescript has optical types What are optical types? I've never heard of this term and Google turned up nothing on it.

• untog 12y ago
  100% sure it's a typo of "optional types".
  • hibbelig 12y ago
    How boring :-) I'd love to look forward to a language with optical types. I'm sure it's at least as interesting as operand overloading in Intercal.
    • kyllo 12y ago
      I was imagining something like Lens in Haskell :)
    • hmsimha 12y ago
      Optical typing must be like duck typing taken to the extreme. If it looks like a duck then it's a duck, dammit!
      • girvo 12y ago
        Type coercion taken way too far ;)
• DonHopkins 12y ago
  Optical types are when they shave the bushy hair off of the type system, and it looks an inch longer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbXwzqlqsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbXwzqlqsU