[fpc-pascal] Do you get type errors?

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spir <denis.spir at gmail.com>:

> Theoretically speaking, I'm all for type checking; and for programming
> discipline in general. But in practice I never get type errors.

Then you are either a genius or you are using not enough types. ;)

> So, a few questions:
> * Do you get type errors?

Occasionally, yes.

> (playing the devil's advocate:)
> * What is type checking _actually_ useful for?

Type checking only does not help anything. You need to make use of types to actually benefit from such checks. If everything in your program is either integer or float, then the probability of catching errors through the type checking system is rather low indeed.

> * What about a compiler without type-checking?

There are already too many of them. :-P


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