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		userbinator on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go Python and a lot of the other dynamic languages are in a slightly different situation.

throwaway894345 on April 13, 2020 [–]

The point is that if you can make typos in identifiers in (unlinted) Python then you can make typos in string literals in Go. In both cases, there is no static analysis to help you.

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