Static Type Checking

Static type checking is done once, at compile time.

• The compiler must be able to determine ``all'' types at compile time: type declarations required.

• Faster at runtime: no type checks, only operations.

• Inflexible. Pascal originally included array bounds as part of the type, making it impossible to write general subroutines such as matrix inversion.

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