Nathan Wiger wrote:
>
> > Programs will specify arithmetic processing in typical Perl fashion:
> >
> > use integer qw(32bit unsigned);
> > use integer qw(64bit);
> >
> > Perl semantics will reflect this value until the end of current block.
>
> I wonder if this wouldn't be better handled on an item-by-item basis
> like other languages that use types?
>
> my int $x : 64bit = some_big_val();
> my int $y : 32bit, unsigned = 5;
> my float $z;
>
> -Nate
Types just seem so very un-perl. There is much to be said for the
universal scalar vairable. I'm not sure I fully understand just why we
NEED types in the language. We have functions such as:
my $integervalue = int($value);
and...
my $float = sprintf("%2.2f", $integervalue);
So what are the benifits of types?
Greg
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