The Agile Method is a tool and nothing more or less. It is not an opinion, but just a tool. To understand this tool, one must first establish the context. More often then not, tools are meta-solutions to problems. They aid in forming the solution, but are not the solution itself. Since the introduction of technology, we’ve inherited rigid processes from
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Scripting languages offer the comfort of automatic type inference. The way we approached this in our own scripting language
was by having meta-data alongside memory containing the data.
*A few commenters recommended unions. Although interesting, we prefered to extend the enum variables and keep the pointer variable flexible, instead of extending the struct with new types.
Languages that auto-magically infer the type from what you populate
the object with like Javascript, Python and Lua, store meta-data about
your data. This meta-data is used to allow the correct operations to happen
on said objects.