> One of my favorite features is type enforcement ... that's a feature that pretty much every other language either already has (and does better), or explicitl

> One of my favorite features is type enforcement ... that's a feature that pretty much every other language either already has (and does better), or explicitly does something different (but better) :S Specifically, every other langage that I know of with type checking support has type checking for classes and primitives. PHP, not so much: function test(integer $z) { print $z + 1; } test(42); PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to test() must be an instance of integer, integer given