On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 06:52 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
> my Date $date = Date.new('June 25, 2002');
>
>> my Date $date is now { .init 'June 25, 2002' };
>
> As is that.
Yes, but this:
my Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh $date is now {.init 'June 25,
2002' };
Is shorter than this:
my Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh $date =
Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh.new( 'June 25, 2002' );
It's not the short package names like "Date" that exacerbate my
tendonitis!
> I'd suggest that redundancy in syntax is often a good thing and
> that there's nothing actually wrong with:
>
> my Date $date = Date.new('June 25, 2002');
No, nothing wrong. It's just not lazy enough (and my arms will want to
increase their tendonitis only by shooting you ;-)).
Perhaps there could be a way to mark a variable as statically typed at
compile time, and have the compiler apply the static typing so that I
don't have to do all that extra typing.
Regards,
David
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