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@planet @clojure

"Traditionally, testing was often relegated to the final stages of development, just before the release"

I was going to dismiss this as another strawman - the same strawman that we've been whipping since Winston Royce, 1970.

But then I see:

"At the outset of a project, during the planning phase, testers should collaborate with developers and stakeholders to understand the requirements and define clear, testable acceptance criteria."

How did we get back to waterfall?

@okamiueru @balder1993

It's an overloaded term:

"Dependency inversion" is a language-agnostic technique for producing testable, loosely-coupled software.

"Dependency injection" just means dependencies should be passed in through the constructor, instead of being magically new()'d whereever.

"DI frameworks" are Satan's farts. Classpath-scanning nonsense that turns compile-time errors into runtime errors. Not only is your Ctr still coupled to your Svc, but both are now coupled to Spring.

@onlinepersona

An enum is a sum type because the number of inhabitants of the enum is the sum of the inhabitants of its parts.

A product type's number of inhabitants is the product of its parts' inhabitants. So a struct would fit that definition, or a pair, or a tuple.

Looking at the pic on your Cartesian product link:
if A is an enum {x,y,z} and B is an enum {1,2,3}, then a struct AxB has 9 possible inhabitants.

@onlinepersona @armchair_progamer

A type has a number of 'inhabitants'. 'Sum' indeed corresponds to adding the possible inhabitants together.

A Boolean has two inhabitants - true and false. A byte has 256 inhabitants. A BoolOrByte type has 258 inhabitants.

If you have BoolByte pair, that's a product type - 512 possible inhabitants.

It may make no fucking sense depending on your exposure to Java, where Void (literally 'empty') has an inhabitant, and Boolean has 5.

@Windex007
> You as the writer, you don’t know either?
Not until the compiler tells me.

> Or is the argument that nobody but the compiler and god need know? That having an awareness of the types has no value?
No, I want to know, because knowing the types has value. If the compiler has inference, it can tell me, if not, it can't.

@Windex007 @snowe

Yes. Type-inference typically *knows better than me* what the types should be.

I frequently ask the compiler what code I need to write next by leaving a gap in my implementation and letting the compiler spit out the type of the missing section.