On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:29:23PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : You should look at Common Lisp. it's definition of "optional typing" is that if you take a correct program and remove all the type declarations, then it still works correctly, although it may be significantly less efficient. Larry and i have discussed this and that was his goai in Perl. Now Perl doesn't quite meet that because of inferred method dispatch on .new(). you need to change : : my Dog $spot = .new(); : : to : : my $Spot = Dog.new(); : : when you remove the declaration.
You'd also break multiple dispatch rather badly... Larry
