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submitted 10 months ago by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] hypertown@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Well, that depends on definition. But the joke is why on earth would you want to write types on your shopping list? Like this:

tomatos (vegetable)
apples (fruit)

Etc.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Why not? If a shop is having a sale on fruits only then I would like to sort out all the fruits quickly.

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

To be conformant with PEP-8.

[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago

Well, I can't think of an English example from the top of my head, but in German the words for Pear and (light) bulb are the same. So there are some exotic use cases.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So that the mindless automaton delivering your groceries doesn't unexpectedly give you tomatoes for your sundae, in a future expansion to dish-based orders.

I've yet to create a type error that didn't correspond to me thinking about something wrong.