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From: Paul Colin Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Chuck <chuckmacdonald@nospam.me> sent on February 18th, 2011:
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|"Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:                                          |
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|> The flaw here is structural equivalence and, more generally, type|
|> inference. Not everybody agree that type inference is bad. I do  |
|> believe that it is.                                              |
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Type inference is bad. I do not want a typo of assigning minus three
meters per second to a variable which is supposed to denote the
quantity of passengers to be accepted by a compiler.