leah & tigers & bears, oh my! on Nostr: no, nobody should, it's silly. especially in the moden age of IDEs that can show you ...

no, nobody should, it's silly. especially in the moden age of IDEs that can show you immediately what the type (static and/or dynamic, if your language is that way inclined) of any given variable is at any moment!

i remember having arguments about this in my first job. i thought, and still think, the whole idea was pointless; but my boss swore by it, and i very quickly learned that prevailing culture trumps good taste any day... unless it's your project, in which case you get to set the rules yourself