Re^7: what would you like to see in perl5.12?

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... looks to me like the types are written after the typed variables/parameters. Hence ... looks like it's not using prefix types. All I'm trying to say is that we should look at C and NOT repeat it's seemingly bright ideat to put the type before the variable ending up putting the type information all around the variable.

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Re^8: what would you like to see in perl5.12? by TimToady (Parson) on Aug 21, 2007 at 17:30 UTC
In Perl 6 you can put the type either before or after, taking end-weight into account. So `my Int @array;` [download] is equivalent to `my @array of Int;` [download] which in turn is really short for `my @array is Array of Int;` [download] so it's easy to see how you can end up with cool things like `my @array of Hash of Tree of Int;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]