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Is that an opinion you share with the author and you are referencing a really poor book in an attempt at an argument from authority? Strongly typed is well defined, even when a Racket enthusiast dishonestly tries to pretend otherwise in his Racket marketing book. That nonsense was removed from the book was it not?

The term was defined by Barbara Liskov in 1974: "whenever an object is passed from a calling function to a called function, its type must be compatible with the type declared in the called function". Very clear, very simple, no nonsensical or meaningless problems at all.



It's no longer 1974.

Type safety is discussed in "Types and Programming Languages" http://books.google.com/books?id=ti6zoAC9Ph8C

"Strongly typed" is not.




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