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		nkvoll on March 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things Java Programmers can learn from Clojure But using structural typing (on the JVM, where Clojure lives) is slow, because it requires using reflection, which severely limits its use currently.

Tuna-Fish on March 7, 2013 [–]

I'm talking about structural static typing. At runtime, all the types would be fully determined, so no need for reflection. (Or vcalls for that matter).

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