Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Wed Oct 16 08:08:13 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 14:59:19 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> I suggest to stop applying patches over patches over problems, 
> and instead adopt a more principled approach to solve problems. 
> The ideas of the Koka language could show a principled way to 
> face the problem.

tl; dr: we can't

Right now D is in similar state as C++ in that regard and not 
much can be done without revamping the spec. It is not like 
people lack the ideas to improve the design, quite the contrary.


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