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Comment by miki123211

This isn't specific to Rust or Typescript. You can do this in basically any language.

Imagine you have to distinguish between unescaped and escaped strings for security purposes. Even with a dynamically typed language, you can keep escaped strings as an Escaped class, with escape(str)->Escaped and dangerouslyAssumeEscaped(str)->Escaped functions (or static methods). There's a performance cost to this, so that's a tradeoff you have to weigh, but it is possible.

Another way of doing this is Application Hungarian[1], though that relies on the programmer more than it does on the compiler.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

parent miki123211 6 months ago

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