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RussianCow on Feb 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big changes to Erlang

Static typing does nothing for hashes/maps. That would only help with attributes on objects.

lmm on Feb 1, 2014 | [–]

Right, but the example code would probably, in a staticly typed language, be implemented with an object rather than a map.

laureny on Feb 1, 2014 | [–]

It certainly does if your keys are not strings but objects.

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