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New ‘Ambiguous’ Variable Type Promises to End Type Errors by Making All Types Equally Unreliable (disreport.com)

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[-] Jakylla@jlai.lu 112 points 1 week ago

Already exists, that's called Javascript

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Unlike traditional types such as string, number, or even JavaScript's dangerously permissive any, an ambiguous variable can contain any value, several values, or no value at all, depending on execution context, compiler mood, and whether anyone is currently debugging it.

It's different than loosely typed vars, which are not at all exclusive to Javascript

[-] bitfucker@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"any value, several, or no value". Any in JS is literally that tho, sans "Never" iirc

Edit: oops, I was wrong. Any MAY be a never. Typescript allows it

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