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		s_tec on Jan 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond Exactly. Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C, it looks like `void *`, while in Java, it's `Object`. The `any` keyword is just the latest in a long line of escape hatches. Pretty much every language has one.

dragonwriter on Jan 24, 2019 [–]

> Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C

C is clearly statically typed, but among statically typed language it is quite weakly typed.

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