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		choiway on Aug 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functi... I do like me some static typing but it took me a while to realize that the guards and pattern matching provides runtime guarantees and not just compile time guarantees.

pjerem on Aug 15, 2023 [–]

In theory, compile time guarantees renders runtime guarantees useless as long as you don’t interact with untyped code.

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