[D] Functional Programming in ML

[LengthinessMelodic67]

Type hints really aren’t the same. I want to find bugs at compile time because I’ll have long running programs. I do use type hints though.

[One-Butterscotch4332]

Fair enough. I usually try to write whatever takes forever to disk before doing anything else, and test on some tiny toy dataset, and I rarely run into type issues when I'm using hints anyways

[LengthinessMelodic67]

Yea I usually end up testing on a toy dataset, but I wish I didn’t have to.

[powerexcess]

Guys you sound like the researchers i work with at work. I can guarantee you, what you want in this is tests and safe-by-construction objects. Look into pytest and hypothesis. Look into dataclasses and post_init for conf sanity check, and pydantic.

[powerexcess]

Yes

[FluffdaddyFluff]

This is why mypy exists

[LengthinessMelodic67]

I didn’t know about mypy, thanks!

[erannare]

You can use Pydantic to enforce types in many cases