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For me, I don’t feel comfortable working without a static type system. I love Perl (and initially mistyped that as “live” Perl, which is nice), but nothing beat
by zoul 14y ago
For me, I don’t feel comfortable working without a static type system. I love Perl (and initially mistyped that as “live” Perl, which is nice), but nothing beats the feeling of the compiler going through the code for me. Granted, I still have the test suite, but that’s much more work than just getting the types right.
- kbenson 14y agoI'll agree with that. There's numerous times I've wanted to be able to assume (correctly) that a scalar holds a certain value type. At the same time, it sometimes feels constraining to design within that limitation. I think optional typing is the future here, and Perl 6 has it, as well as a few other modern languages.