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Actually, one of the benefits of strong typing (without side effects) is that the correct implementation is sometimes the only one that compiles.

For example, if you know that a function takes a generic list and returns an integer, then the list’s length is pretty much the only non-trivial computation it can perform.



I've seen this happen for a handful of functions, but implementation correctness proofs for general applications are far beyond the expressive capabilities of TypeScript.




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