SPUG: Does Perl Scale? (Was: Evolution of Perl)

Colin Meyer cmeyer at helvella.org
Sat Aug 11 19:24:38 CDT 2001


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:28:31PM -0700, Colin Meyer wrote:
> 
> btw, Perl6 will support (if I understand correctly) data containers with 
> strong types.  For example, 
> 
> my int $x;    # $x can only store ints
> my dog $spot; # $spot can only hold objects of class dog

er, this will probably actually read like this (using variable properties):

my $x is int; 
my $spot is dog;

> 
> This sort of functionality can be accomplished with Perl5, through OO
> interfaces, or tieing.

-C.

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