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travisjungroth on Aug 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Six Years of Professional Clojure

You can statically analyze specs and check them at runtime if you want.

c-cube on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

Can you? Is there any tool that actually does that reliably?

travisjungroth on Aug 4, 2021 | [–]

https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_using_spec_for_validation

c-cube on Aug 5, 2021 | | [–]

The words "static" or "analysis" do not appear there. I imagine you meant that you can runtime check the specs, which, well, is no replacement for a type system.

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