So, yes, Perl as a whole defies classification

Well at least we can agree on this. I like your breakdown, its a very interesting way of looking at it. However, I prefer to look at a language as having a single type system rather than several type systems layered upon one another. You (and chromatic and merlyn) say tomAto, and I will say tOmato. IMO, thats one of the things that makes perl so great, because there is TIMTOWTDI, there is also more than one way to look at it too.

That's why me or merlyn or chromatic will assert that Perl is strongly typed.

Funny, i find that sometimes I don't always agree with them either ;-)

-stvn

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