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Guthur on June 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The state of type hints in Python

And so you know f(a b c) accepts floats, but what good is that if you don't actually know what a b c are. Which is the reason I hate the term type safe. It's type checked but the behavior may or may not be safe.

Melchizedek on June 21, 2018 [–]

If you want the type to be more specific than float, you can create a more specific type.

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