also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

What you're describing is type hints, it's syntactic sugar and not used at all by the interpreter.

For example, this is a "legal" statement:

foo: int = "bar"

Your IDE and linter will complain, but the interpreter just chops the hints off when compiling, and it's left with foo = "bar"

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