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When you manage to break the type system (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I mean, the type system isn’t very strict at all to begin with in some . It’s trivially breakable when performing common operations like type punning in C.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Depends on the programming language

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That's why we don't like c

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What did you actually do?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I broke the type system in Kotlin and ended up with a null value in a non-null (not lateinit) variable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

How convoluted was it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

With no platform types involved?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting. Care to share? I think they fixed a few of those issues with K2. Did you find something new or is it known?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It was about 3 years ago, and I haven't been able to find my old code again. I probably discarded it after finding out it didn't work well.

I was able to find these screenshots though: