From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T11:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to DuckType, or a case study of when lack of static typing bites.

On Monday, 24 May 2004 at  9:05:44 +0900, John Carter wrote:
> 
> So the lack of static typing just bit me.
> 
> I had a bug, somehow the wrong value crept into an object, and somewhere
> much later, my program died. This is _the_ nightmare scenario that grips
> any static typer when he lets go of his static types.
> 
> Curiously enough in the year or so of slowly adding to this program, this was
> the first time it really bit me. But then I tend to have fairly good Unit
> Tests, so mostly such things get caught early.
> 
> But this one was evil, I had know idea at what level I had gone wrong. I
> just had an error message "false::FalseClass does not respond to match".
> 

Hmm, one bug in a year, and it sounds like you found the source fairly
quickly. That's not too bad if you ask me. :)

-- 
Jim Freeze
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