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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> 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.

Could you elaborate a little on why you think type inference is bad? In the 
functional languages that support it, type inference is completely type safe 
(for example: Haskell, OCaml, Scala). Perhaps you mean something different.

I do agree that type annotations can be useful documentation for the 
programmer trying to read the program, but a program won't "go wrong" 
because of type inference.

Peter