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26 November 2025

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  • curprev 17:0717:07, 26 November 2025‎ Helpful talk contribs‎ 1,997 bytes +1,997‎ Created page with "Duck typing is named for ''"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck."'' In programming, as long as a value/object behaves like we expect, it doesn't really matter what it actually is -- "if we can make it quack like a duck, it's duck-like enough for our purposes." This is mostly a concept around dynamic typing. It usually saves a lot of typing, the kind of typing primarily or ''only'' necessary to make the compiler happy. This sounds like..."
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