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Postings from October 2003
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:46 pm, Scott Walters wrote: > > From perldoc perltodo: > > Typed lexicals for compiler > > I've been working on typesafety.pm (0.4 on CPAN) and I'm trying to > guage > interest. Arthur Bergman has his excellent types.pm for atomic types > as well. > > I know that this sort of thing isn't suitable for small scripts and > throw away code, but for larger programs it can be a very useful > form of stricture. Java programmers depend on this kind of checking and > diagnostic and wouldn't be cought dead without it. It is also something > that looks good on a languages resume, so to speak. > > Best wishes, > -scott > I should have warned you (and I will respond to your email), a lot of the old timers are now going to come screaming that this is impossible and that there will always be ways around this. Please ignore them, since it is surely possible to get it working so it is useful. And also, since it is possible to do using modules, we shouldn't put it in the core, but rather leave that for perl6 ArthurThread Previous