In order to know what I'm talking about here you need to go look at slide two or three of this slideshow titled Introducing the Ceylon Project :: Why We're (Still) Fans of Java

. Near latter half of the slide I read this: "Java...[blah, blah, blah]...Static typing enables sophisticated tooling including automatic refactoring, code navigation, and code completion...this kind of tooling is simply not possible [ emphasis mine ] without static typing..."

Last time I checked, Perl was not a statically typed language (unless I missed the boat or something). However, we appear to have an IDE called Padre which, according to the features page claims to support code refactoring and visual editor effects like code hiding, etc.

I have not downloaded Padre or perused its codebase (yet) and I'm wondering if these are 'fake' features since (apparently) these things are impossible without static typing!

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In reply to What is simply not possible without static typing? by InfiniteSilence

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