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What is the alternative? You change the code, the behavior gets changed but the compiler doesn't warn you. At this point you have two possible paths:

1- You wrote tests which start failing. You must now spend time changing them. You don't manage to avoid working in order fix your safety net (be it static type checking or your test suite).

2- You didn't write the right tests, and don't notice the change in behavior. The program later fails in production.



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