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in thread Interesting read: "Why I use perl and still hate dynamic language weenies too"

No question that typed languages often put you through hassles that dynamic languages don't, but I think you have to give at least some typed languages some credit for being structurally typed, which makes pack and unpack look more like: 
    $packed = $obj.freeze;
    $obj = $packed.thaw;

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