• philwills@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Man… I thought this was going to be a proper rant about using maps where you should be using other things… No, it’s a make sure you type your function inputs rant…

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      10 months ago

      I wasn’t trying to go into typing as much as using structs or objects when working with known data attributes. Sorry that it was a bit misleading.

      The original actually went into using trees, sets, heaps, tries, etc., but it felt way too… ranty. After writing all that out, I realized that most of those other cases come up really infrequently, and that my biggest gripe was about not using structs or other pre-defined key container types. I thought it would be better to keep things short and focused.

      Maybe I should re-write and publish a data structures edition.