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"lots of explicit coercions" - even without recourse to generics, the overhead tends to be small. Really, try it. There's no need to write intepreters, let alone architecture simulators.

I tend to think the attraction of dynamic typing is the ability to run incomplete or ill-typed programs. If we have type inference, there is no real advantage in terms of conciseness.



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