On May 1, 2008, at 1:46 , Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:34:45AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
wrote:
On May 1, 2008, at 1:30 , Jon Lang wrote:
In defense of chromatic's point, both people and syrup run.
But there *is* some commonality there, to the extent that both are
motion.
This is the kind of thing that spawned this discussion, in fact:
if what
matters is motion, there is no reason *not* to substitute one for the
other.
Er, ask Nasa their opinion of duck typing newtons and pounds. Hey,
they're both units of thrust, so they both cause motion...
Well, yes; but what spawned this side discussion was the whole notion
of mixing things that normally wouldn't. It *is* Perlish to let you
do such things, after all. (Note that strong typing would disallow
this, so NASA could still have their units check.)
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