That's an interesting approach, I'd like to see an implementation of what you're talking about. What language are you using that has such an expressive type system?

Oh, I agree that there usually isn't a scientific method to programming. I think there could be though. Not for everything of course, some things will always be up to personal taste and interpretation but the cursor could probably be moved with some effort in analyzing existing codebases at scale, doing surveys, internal testing of different approaches in large companies. Something more akin to what you see in social sciences, even if it might be a bad word in some circles!

We probably won't agree but I legitimately enjoy hearing about how people code.