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Am I missing something, why wouldn't a non-homogeneous array literal pass?

• insanitybit 4y ago
  Because mixing types in an array is stupid enough that I thought it might just not be valid.
  • ris 4y ago
    Mixing types in an array/list is not remotely stupid. How exactly would you suggest expressing the lack of a value in a series of numbers without None/null? There's your mixed types. Don't let weird dogma get in the way of practicality.
    • insanitybit 4y ago
      JSON has a `null` value already, and null is its own special case in most languages where `null` is a universal type. Otherwise you tag your data so that it's an array of objects.
    • qwefsdf 4y ago
      That's an Optional[int]. It's not "mixed types", it's a union type.
      • ris 4y ago
        That is merely a detail of how the typing module has decided to set up convenient aliases. Treated by the language (and likely compilers) as different types.