On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > Anyway, I don't profess to have thought deeply about type inferencing. > But I do know that I don't want to turn Perl 6 into ML just yet... > > Larry >
Speaking of ML, it appears to me that Perl6 rules are a mechanism that can act very much like ML variant pattern matching. What I fail to see in Perl6 is the equivalent of ML variant constructors. Perhaps, you don't want to turn Perl 6 into ML just yet. :) But if it comes for almost free... -- stef
