On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there was? i did not notice that ...
stephen decided that not enough people cared about requiring 5.6.1 to call a vote on the topic, and nobody pitched a fuss. that's good enough for me. > but you can specify types in another way, attributes is > just the cleanest approach since types can be tagged > onto the variables. > > without types you won't be able to automatically compare > data structures. they tell you wether you have to > compare the values the hashref is pointing to (array > type) or the reference itself (ref tyoe) as it was in > your previous example. i think the question is, how much comparison do we really have to do? i'm not convinced that the extent you describe is necessary. but then i didn't study computer science, (for very long anyway), so i might be talking out my ass. maybe i should eat some acid and contemplate the mathematical and philosophical underpinnings and implications of object identity. :)
