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Tuesday December 17, 2002
12:40 PM

Static Typing - give it a rest

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I read this on the Ruby ML just recently:

Static typing protects you from errors that you just never make...
- Dan Sugalski

Amen to that. I'm not sure why a language like Ruby draws folks who want to add static typing while a language like Perl generally doesn't. Maybe they fear bodily harm from the Perl folks. I wouldn't mind an optional typing system of some sort, but I can certainly live without it. You can always do tricks with hashes.

Maybe someone should port Params::Validate and then we can set up an auto-reply in the ML whenever the subject comes up. :)


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  • There are people on perl6-language who keep making noises about adding static typing to the language, and, indeed it looks like Perl 6 will be getting type declarations. However, to my way of thinking those optional declarations are there for the same reason Common Lisp allows to to declare a typed variable; because you want to get a performance gain (if a variable *knows* it's going to be a foo then you can make useful optimizations based on that.)
  • Yet Another Perl Monks Discussion [perlmonks.org] :)
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    broquaint out

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