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All else being equal, I prefer compile-time type checking. In the real world however, "all else" is never equal.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wilt [mailto:charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 10:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: New to RPG
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The big difference in RPG compared with e.g. javascript lies in the
strict definition of variables
And this is a good thing!
In fact, a few years ago saw the release of Typescript, a superset of Javascript with compile time type checking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript
Charles
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