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Article #3585RE: Run-time Type Errors in Smalltalk
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 08:18
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 08:18
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Jim Showalter writes: >Bzzzzzzt. Thank you for playing. *sigh* *yawn* >I defy you to come up with a way to ensure that you have traversed >all possible paths through a dynamically-typed program that could >conceivably send the wrong message to the wrong recipient. Design the program so that there are only a small number of paths in any given module. Test each module before using. One of the advantages of dynamic typing is that it allows you to represent information as data which, in a statically typed language, can only be represented as control flow. Raul Rockwell
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