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austinz on June 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chris Lattner on Swift

Lots of people are having a hard time understanding the difference between dynamic typing and static typing with type inference.

mikeash on June 4, 2014 [–]

Definitely. I suppose it's understandable if this is your first exposure to type inference. Superficially it looks exactly like the "assign anything to anything" languages like Python or JavaScript.

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