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One of the main problems brought out when comparing dynamic languages to static ones is lack of proper refactoring support. It is usually implied that dynamic languages are not conceptually refactorable, which speeds up code rotting.
Although there is plenty of evidence that dynamic languages do support refactoring, I’d like to concentrate on the other claim [...]
OK, I think I managed to solve both the primitive and the double slot problem introduced in the previous post. Basically I introduced another parametrized class — InvokeBuilder, which builds method invocations. The example now looks like this:
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JAVA:
ClassWriter cw = new ClassWriter(COMPUTE_MAXS);
new ClassBuilder(cw, V1_4, ACC_PUBLIC, “HelloWorld”, “java/lang/Object”, null)
.beginMethod(ACC_PUBLIC, “<init>”, [...]
Static v/s dynamic types: I will look now into the pros & cons of static typing. What if it’s not really a technical but more of a psychological matter?
This is not exactly an eye-opener, but static types will create a mind map of the project code with considerably less effort than dynamic types. And as [...]
I have just attended a great course on JavaScript soft typing by Peter Thiemann. No doubt I’ll write more about it later, but today I want to show how fun and quirky can JavaScript be.
Note that all puzzles are given in succession and every next one includes all the code of the previous ones. Also [...]