On Thursday, December 2, 2010, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10-12-02 11:36 AM, Dana Hudes wrote: > > In re the hashref vs list argument the motivation forme is that I gain very > little from using Perl's parameter prototyping. Indeed we have modules such > as Params::Validate because others feel the same way. > > Perl is a weakly typed language. It doesn't have type-based method dispatch > as Java does. Those want that use a module that helps or roll their own. > It doesn't have real type checking at compile time. It barely does at run > time. > There is no difference between an integer and real or floating point. > > > I like Perl's lack of datatypes. Don't forget datatypes were invented by > compiler writers to make their job easier. They do not make programming > easier. People do not think in terms of datatypes.
Compared to other dynamically typed languages you'd say Perl has *some* static typing, that's kinda what sigils are in my view.
