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I like Python def (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

[–] boletus 3 points 11 months ago

The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But will it run? I'm used to typescript where it's not checked at runtime but you can't "build" unsafe types I'd assume it's the same here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

no they really are just fancy comments. You can do runtime reflection on them if you wanna make something fancy like a plugin system but that's about it