It had automatic data validation, data serialization and OpenAPI schema generation based on the same type hints in several places.

    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(bytes)).isEqualTo(array);
    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(shorts)).isEqualTo(array);
    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(ints)).isEqualTo(array);
    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(floats)).isEqualTo(array);
    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(longs)).isEqualTo(array);
    assertThat(Shorts.toArray(doubles)).isEqualTo(array);
  }

     * top SIGNIFICAND_BITS + 1.
     *
     * It helps to consider the real number signif = absX * 2^(SIGNIFICAND_BITS - exponent).
     */
    int shift = exponent - SIGNIFICAND_BITS - 1;
    long twiceSignifFloor = absX.shiftRight(shift).longValue();
    long signifFloor = twiceSignifFloor >> 1;
    signifFloor &= SIGNIFICAND_MASK; // remove the implied bit

    /*

      if (child == null) {
        child = Node()
        children[childIndex] = child
      }
      node = child
    }

    val shift = 8 - accumulatorBitCount
    val start = (code shl shift) and 0xff
    val end = 1 shl shift
    node.children!!.fill(terminal, start, start + end)
  }

  private class Node {
    /** Null if terminal. */
    val children: Array<Node?>?

            ListTestSuiteBuilder.using(new ShortsAsListTailSubListGenerator())
                .named("Shorts.asList, tail subList"),
            ListTestSuiteBuilder.using(new ShortsAsListMiddleSubListGenerator())
                .named("Shorts.asList, middle subList"));

    TestSuite suite = new TestSuite();
    for (ListTestSuiteBuilder<Short> builder : builders) {
      suite.addTest(
          builder

		}
	}
	return 0, false
}

// ARM64RegisterShift constructs an ARM64 register with shift operation.
func ARM64RegisterShift(reg, op, count int16) (int64, error) {
	// the base register of shift operations must be general register.
	if reg > arm64.REG_R31 || reg < arm64.REG_R0 {
		return 0, errors.New("invalid register for shift operation")
	}
	return int64(reg&31)<<16 | int64(op)<<22 | int64(uint16(count)), nil
}

@REM POM location, if supplied.

set FILE_ARG=
:arg_loop
if "%~1" == "-f" (
  set "FILE_ARG=%~2"
  shift
  goto process_file_arg
)
if "%~1" == "--file" (
  set "FILE_ARG=%~2"
  shift
  goto process_file_arg
)
@REM If none of the above, skip the argument
shift
if not "%~1" == "" (
  goto arg_loop
) else (
  goto findBaseDir
)

:process_file_arg

     */
    public void align(final int mask) throws IOException {
        final int position = this.size - this.dis.available();
        final int shift = position & mask - 1;
        if (mask != 0 && shift != 0) {
            this.dis.skip(mask - shift);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the number of bytes available to read.
     * @return the number of available bytes

        var result = prefixMask
        var shift = 0
        while (true) {
          val b = readByte()
          if (b and 0x80 != 0) { // Equivalent to (b >= 128) since b is in [0..255].
            result += b and 0x7f shl shift
            shift += 7
          } else {
            result += b shl shift // Last byte.
            break
          }
        }
        return result

And also that your code will be very compatible with many other Python tools and libraries. 🚀

///

## Type hints in **FastAPI** { #type-hints-in-fastapi }

**FastAPI** takes advantage of these type hints to do several things.

With **FastAPI** you declare parameters with type hints and you get:

* **Editor support**.
* **Type checks**.

...and **FastAPI** uses the same declarations to: