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On May 1, 2008, at 1:46 , Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:34:45AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH > wrote: >> >> On May 1, 2008, at 1:30 , Jon Lang wrote: >>> In defense of chromatic's point, both people and syrup run. >> >> But there *is* some commonality there, to the extent that both are >> motion. >> This is the kind of thing that spawned this discussion, in fact: >> if what >> matters is motion, there is no reason *not* to substitute one for the >> other. > > Er, ask Nasa their opinion of duck typing newtons and pounds. Hey, > they're both units of thrust, so they both cause motion... Well, yes; but what spawned this side discussion was the whole notion of mixing things that normally wouldn't. It *is* Perlish to let you do such things, after all. (Note that strong typing would disallow this, so NASA could still have their units check.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NHThread Previous | Thread Next