But mad or not, there are some good reasons to do just
that. First, it makes it possible to write interfaces to other
languages in Perl. Second, it gives the optimizer more
information to think about. Third, it allows the S&M folks to
inflict strongly typed compile-time semantics on each
other. (Which is fine, as long as they don't inflict those
semantics on the rest of us.) Fourth, a type system can be
viewed as a pattern matching system for multi-method dispatch.
shouldn't that be B&D and not S&M?
:-)
uri
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