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Dave Storrs writes: > at first I was alarmed and a bit appalled at a lot of the > changes...e.g., the 'HASH $tree is rw' parameter declaration. > "Jesus," I thought "if I wanted a typed languaged, I'd use C++." > The more I read, however, the more I became convinced that these > were actually elegant Perlisms...you can have exactly as much > freedom as you want, if you carry the responsibility for it. > Alternatively, you can have Perl do more of the work for you, if you > are willing to live with constraints. Elegant. Perlish. Good. Yes, it's important for everyone to understand that types are OPTIONAL. You use them when you want compile-time type checking or storage efficiency or you need them for something you're doing with an underlying VM, but you can always write untyped code. NatThread Previous | Thread Next