On Monday, August 09, 2010 18:21:21 simendsjo wrote: > Yeah, I know. I'm really just pointing out very small things here as I > try to learn the language and library. Still.. I do think that static > checking is a very good way of eliminating many common bugs. This might > have been a bad example. I've coded several non-trivial applications in > scripting languages, and more often than not, I _know_ what kind of > objects my functions accepts... Why a runtime error when you can have a > compile time error?
Well, fortunately, D is statically-typed and generally designed to catch bugs at compile time rather than runtime. It doesn't always succeed (dmd omniscient after all), but a lot more errors are going to be found at compile time than runtime than you'd get with many other languages - especially scripting languages which tend to be dynamically typed. - Jonathan M Davis
