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Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

From:
Thomas Wittek
Date:
May 14, 2007 13:21
Subject:
Re: Is Perl 6 too late?
Message ID:
20070514202047.14038.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Frank Wiles schrieb:
> Take a look at
> actual code written in other languages and you'll find many variable
> names that end in things like _ary, _array, _dict, _list, etc.

Actually I've not seen that often. Where I've seen it frequently is in
Visual Basic and Delphi/Pascal.
I hated it too.

But I think that the name of an identifier (noun/verb, single/plural,
the meaning of the word) already gives enough context to understand what
type it is.
And every use of it (assigning and reading) additionally makes it clear.
So _for me_ there is no need for an additional hint for the type.

-- 
Thomas Wittek
http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/
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