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0 pointsivxvm4y ago0 comments

I've never seen people pulling those "wacky" functions out of thin air on a whim. I usually see them rarely arising in places where they make sense. Like event subscriptions.

For example, in window.addEventListener("click", callback) callback is a procedure that receives MouseEvent, while in window.addEventListener("copy", callback) callback is a procedure that receives ClipboardEvent. So we can say that type of second argument depends on the string passed as first. TypeScripts type system is able to make this statically typed and type checked properly.

Any examples of "wacky" functions where similar dependencies exist but are not necessary?

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unexaminedlife4y ago

I think it's rare in a truly organized environment where code reviews are common, but I have seen early in my career crazy stuff where people just either didn't like what they were doing for a career or they were under the gun to make something happen quickly. So dynamically typed languages unfortunately are extremely flexible for both of those cases. If only the language could be smart enough to recognize between the two and prevent the malicious / unhappy people from exploiting the flexibility :)

BTW, just for the record I didn't mention above, but I do love what many languages are doing such as TypeScript where strong typing can be gradually added over time.

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0 pointsivxvm4y ago0 comments

I've never seen people pulling those "wacky" functions out of thin air on a whim. I usually see them rarely arising in places where they make sense. Like event subscriptions.

Any examples of "wacky" functions where similar dependencies exist but are not necessary?

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unexaminedlife4y ago

BTW, just for the record I didn't mention above, but I do love what many languages are doing such as TypeScript where strong typing can be gradually added over time.

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