Stringly Typed Programming

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:stringly-typed-programming

Severity: discouraged

Scope: architecture_evolution

Formed by: Encode behavior, types, states, permissions, or protocols as unchecked strings.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which states, types or permissions are encoded as unchecked strings.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Primitive Obsession and before Boolean Trap.

Refactored by

• Replace Boolean with Enum
• Introduce Discriminated Union
• Centralize the Rule
• Schema Validation

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Architecture evolution

Detected by

• rules/eslint/no-string-literal-ids.eslint.rule.ts

Negated by

• Type Safety

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Core Modular Design
• Core Vocabulary
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Severity levels
• The forces