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		krapp 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua You can't have typed tables without giving up tables as the language's single data structure. You would have tables and typed tables which are essentially just arrays with extra steps.

90s_dev 11 months ago [–]

Not with type erasure like TypeScript does. Then it would just be type checking hints as to how the table is used, not a different kind of table. Teal does this.

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