For what its worth, the datascience ecosystem is probably the worst place to get general idioms from. They tend to err towards their own domain language and build stuff for people who arent programmers. i.e. for caller flexibility instead of maintainability.
Besides that, i only said it was a code smell, i dont debate that its useful sometimes. Just that its a signal to be careful, check you really need itor there is t some other constraint you can break.
My only advice is that narrowing your parameter types at the earliest opportunity is a good practice and results in much easier to understand code.
Besides that, i only said it was a code smell, i dont debate that its useful sometimes. Just that its a signal to be careful, check you really need itor there is t some other constraint you can break.
My only advice is that narrowing your parameter types at the earliest opportunity is a good practice and results in much easier to understand code.