On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:09:46PM -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
>
>Several people have suggested strong typing as a feature, and have been shot
>down one by one. However, I think it can be done without forcing it on
>everyone.
>
>In fact, it can be done with Perl 5, as various people have pointed out,
>through tying. Unfortunately, accessing and manipulating tied variables is
>incredibly slow. Improving their speed is obviously an implementation
>detail (not belonging to a -language list), but would improve the language
>by allowing the addition of extra syntax, like type checking, without
>requiring it to be in core (that is, perl core, not the core distribution).
Can you please RFCify this? Should only be a bit of formatting,
considering what you've already written :)
K.
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