On Apr 20, 3:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M. Dlugosz) wrote: > I've identified a few more issues while refactoring the text across all > the synopses, but I'm just noting everything in my document. Not enough > discussion going on to post them all. > > My main creative effort is in studying type systems, and musing over > what it would be like to have Perl 6's type system to be F-bounds > specified subtyping. According to Anthony Simons, no one has ever > completely implemented it before. I think Perl is a language that > =could= do it, with its mixture of helpful typing and lax non-typing. > Can't get a strict subtype defined properly? Forget about it and just > use Any. > > --John
I stumbled onto this group as I was looking for language statisics and I tried understanding what I am looking at. What is Perl? I don't mean to sound stupid in asking this. But could you explain what it is that I am looking at here? WR