# Does Julia syntax do enough to encourage type stability?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-julia-syntax-do-enough-to-encourage-type-stability/2219>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** type-stability\
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-julia-syntax-do-enough-to-encourage-type-stability/2219 "2017-02-21T17:30:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-julia-syntax-do-enough-to-encourage-type-stability/2219/17 "2017-02-22T08:06:39Z")

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Aside, in case someone reading this thread is not aware: there is the `Base.Test.@inferred` macro to help test that functions are type stable.

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