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

[Damian Conway]

   > 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;

Err, I don't think so.
The:

    my INT $x;    # $x can only store integers

    my dog $spot; # $spot can only hold references to objects of class dog
		  # or its subclasses

syntax is far more likely.

Damian

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