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[Doug Winter]

Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Doug Winter said:
>>I'm intrigued - can you give me an example of your point?
> 
> <http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/>
> 
> (Despite the title, this is mostly about ML, not Perl: it's just that
> it's targetted at Perl hackers :) )

OK, I agree, mostly, I think.  Strong Typing is a Good Thing, but Python 
has that.  And this illustrates what I think I hate the most about perl:

http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/samples/slide033.html

I'm not so sure about static compile-time type checking though - it 
seems to make a lot of sense when you are dealing with primitives, but 
when you start passing round objects (which you tend to) it gets very 
messy.  Pythons Duck Typing seems to work much better there, in my 
experience.

That said, there are times when it would be very good to be able to 
enforce typing on function arguments, and this is coming up shortly in 
Python too, from the sound of it, using decorators.

God, I really sound like a Python cheerleader.  I'm not a foaming at the 
mouth python freak honest! :)

Cheers,

Doug.

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