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Michael Mathews
Date:
May 24, 2006 15:42
Subject:
Re: 3 Good Reasons...
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dab429000605241542s3ae81bc2r42119190cff3a4d2@mail.gmail.com
Ah, perfect example Daniel. I know people say things like "Java is
better for big projects because of the strictness of it's typing". I
respond that Perl isn't intrinsically sloppy if you practice good
coding, it just doesn't straightjacket you into that all the time.
So here's Perl 6 and it has lovely typing! Yay. I can now say "$foo is
Scalar;" but erm, that's optional. To get the benefit you must still
hope for developer self-discipline (my day-job is maintaining and
refactoring other people's Perl, so I may be a teensy bit bitter about
relying on developer self-discipline).
Is there something in Perl 6 akin to a "use strict" switch that will
apply the straightjacket some projects need, and thus force typing of
all variables. (Then I could have a good comeback for those damned
Java guys.)
--michael
On 24/05/06, Daniel Hulme <masoch@istic.org> wrote:
> > what problems Perl 5 has that Perl 6 fixes
>
> A type system to die for.
>
> I think that is enough of a win on its own that mentioning any of the
> other features will only muddy the issue :->
>
> --
> "The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who
> are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at
> Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at
> Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan http://surreal.istic.org/
>
>
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