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0 pointsmseepgood2y ago0 comments

Can you explain the thought process of a developer when they write 'performOperation(2)'? What do they believe '2' signifies in this context? I struggle to believe that this could occur by accident.

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avgcorrection2y ago

You struggle to imagine a programmer passing a value of the wrong type to a function?

bb882y ago

Or passing a wrong value and the compiler allows it because the programmer trusted the compiler to "always do the right thing".

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0 pointsmseepgood2y ago0 comments

Can you explain the thought process of a developer when they write 'performOperation(2)'? What do they believe '2' signifies in this context? I struggle to believe that this could occur by accident.

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avgcorrection2y ago

You struggle to imagine a programmer passing a value of the wrong type to a function?

bb882y ago

Or passing a wrong value and the compiler allows it because the programmer trusted the compiler to "always do the right thing".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse