how to make Variant type "known"

[silver geode]

How can I make this "type-safe"? or any form of Variant even

[thick cypress]

You probably can't

[silver geode]

okay, is there a chance anyone else has a more certain answer?

[real falcon]

Does this help?

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/gdscript/static_typing.html

[plain nacelle]

I'm pretty sure you can just var gravity : float = foo();

But probably in this instance project setting will return a variant because its unknown which part of the settings you're accessing so it could be anything

[silver geode]

I am aware of how static typing works

[silver geode]

yes, I have tried : float =, := ... as float (which works for casting node references) but neither show that line as type safe

clamp also causes a similar issue as there are no generics to define its return type

[silent steppe]

it can't be "type safe" in that circumstance, because the type returned is Variant. all you can do is perform checks (in _ready or elsewhere) to handle it as a different type, via casting or whatever other method. same thing for null checking basically

tl;dr C# superiority, where type matters all the time