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in thread Confirming what we already knew

Perl 6 will certainly support type declarations in spots that will help the optimizer. In particular, you'll be able to say something like

    my num @array;

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to get a compact array of doubles. The very-soon-to-be-released A6 will have a section on the new type system. And then you won't have to be afraid to utter the word "type". :-)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Confirming what we already knew
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2003 at 18:17 UTC

    Thanks for the info, it sounds really interesting. is there currently any shortlist of proposed types? Or do we must wait for the official skinny?

    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
    3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Arthur C. Clarke.
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