Re: A few questions about scripting

I’m a big fan of sufficient typing, but no language implements that yet.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Watte
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sweng-Gamedev] A few questions about scripting

>From what we've seen with a more dynamically typed language, you end up having to play half way through a level to realize that you passed in the wrong parameter and get an exception/assert.  I'd

I take it that you don't require unit tests for your gameplay code?

I used to be pro-strong-typing, too, before I understood what "sufficient test coverage" really means. In fact, I'm still kind-of for strong typing in many cases, because it does serve as helpful support (Python purists would say "crutch") in many cases.

Sincerely,

jw


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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Douglas Cox <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

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