18 Dec
2006
18 Dec
'06
7:23 a.m.
Automatic type conversion sounds like a really bad idea if the language only partially supports it. Pd is strongly typed
is it? it mainly has numbers that occasionally look like symbols, and symbols that more than occasionally look like lists and/or strings..
, so what Martin says is definitely appropriate. Perl is the opposite, everything can be automatically cast, so there it makes sense.
it is definitely a design decision which way to go. could PD flexibly support both at once? or does there need to be an OCaml edition, and a Perl edition?