Howdy!

I think jdporter's thesis is that, for a select set of language features, there is only one useful way to do it.

Perl is a strongly typed language. You have three data types -- scalar, array, hash. You can't coerce a scalar into an array or a hash -- they are fundamental data types.

integer, float, decimal -- who needs the multiple names. They are all scalar values.

Note that I don't equate "strongly typed" with "bondage and discipline". Java does the B&D thing with data types, leading to the ever-popular downcast. They may claim to be Strongly Typed, but you can't do anything useful without having to subvert the type system to get data moved around.

yours,
Michael

In reply to Re: Re: There's Only One Way To Do It by herveus
in thread There's Only One Way To Do It by jdporter

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