I think that if we increased the types to the resolution of O'Caml or Haskell (or even C/Java), it wouldn't really be Perl anymore. For this reason, I don't really advocate that Perl's type system be modified too much beyond its current state.

What I do advocate is that type safety is a Good Thing(tm), doesn't get in your way when implemented well, and we need a language that can take the idea out of acadamia and into the real world (like what Java did for VMs).

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

In reply to Re^5: Static typing is mostly a waste of time by hardburn
in thread Static typing is mostly a waste of time by johnnywang

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