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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:49:41PM -0400, John Porter wrote: > Michael G Schwern wrote: > > If there's a class which isn't strictly defined anywhere in > > your hierarchy, no go. > > For robust, mission-critical software, that can hardly > be called a negative. Not a negative, but realize that many people find it of less value than the annoyances it brings with it (myself included) for many tasks. The upshot of this is alot of CPAN code will not be strictly typed, which will cause problems if you want to build anything based on such code. > > Of course, it probably only works with strict functional languages, > > which is very unPerlish. > > It could work in perl when perl is being used in an FP manner; > that would indeed be very Perlish. Yes! That would be a magic trick I'd love to see. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One no paste enema lycos is taught about it my ass is sealed -- SchwernThread Previous | Thread Next