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Why does Python ignore type hints?
In Python, everything is treated as an object. This means that CPython interpreter will decide on the fly, what is the type of each variables or the function return type depending on the current state....
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How can I reconcile “all functions are variables” with a typeclass type system?
In my WIP language, all functions are really just variables with a callable type. That is, a function call foo(bar) is parsed into the following AST:
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What are common approaches to representing types within a compiler?
I'm implementing my own statically-typed programming language and I'm not too happy with my own approach to types. At the moment, I'm relying on mapping a textual representation of a type to an index ...
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