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But as soon as it's turing-complete someone will try to write whatever algorithm with it and you'll have to maintain it.



The type system is turing complete, and its implementation already supports this, since its required for correctness.

People using this feature does not incur any "extra" effort.


And you can refuse to merge those changes and promptly kick the idiot who did that from your team. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s that one case where it actually makes sense.

Not all problems are technical. This is the sort of thing that can be solved with people skills.




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