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But then again, Julia is a relatively new language that aims for high performance in scientific computing while using type inference. Helps to have multiple dispatch that tells you how many definitions there are for a function.


Julia however does not use Hindley-Milner[1]. I'm under the impression that HM is not compatible with multiple dispatch, which would be very unfortunate as typeclasses can serve the same purpose while maintaining compatibility with HM.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078089/is-julia-dynami...




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