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0 pointsmacspoofing8y ago0 comments

>putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a noticeable amount of overhead

Yes. We call that 'typing'.

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And it takes less typing (keyboard) than the assert, and you get free documentation inline with the code!

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0 pointsmacspoofing8y ago0 comments

>putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a noticeable amount of overhead

Yes. We call that 'typing'.

And it takes less typing (keyboard) than the assert, and you get free documentation inline with the code!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse