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sultezdukes on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should String Be An Abstract Class?

For me, xml and other types of config files can be hard to debug because everything is a string. IDE/smart editors help out a lot when you have types.

epochwolf on May 25, 2013 [–]

XML has data types. You just have to load the schema.

sultezdukes on May 25, 2013 | [–]

Yeah, the problem is that the values are strings.

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