Chris Wagner wrote: > That was a pretty nice demonstration of the diabolical power of references. > ;) I think this illustrates one of the soft underbellies (read: "feature") > of Perl, which is that with unrestricted references ur never quite sure what > entity it is ur dealing with. I've never been a real fan of the reference > system. Atleast give us a choice to whether reference or pointer > constructs. Right now sometimes u have to guess what Perl is doing behind > ur back and a lot of times it can come back to bite u. I know it's nailed > me quite a few times. If I had my way implicit args would be abolished and > I'ld really really love to see real arrays. But now I digress.
Maybe a new pragma: use superstrict; or use strongtyping; Which would arn you if you try to do anything questionable and then we'd need an accompanying override symbol (if all the symbols haven't already been used up) that says I know what I'm doing on this one, so don't warn me. I'm sure there are lots of people asking for stronger typing in the future that could prevent lots of these gotchas. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
