> You talked about Good Typing at YAPC, but I missed it. There's a
> discussion of typing on perl6-language. Do you have notes or a
> redux of your talk available to inform this debate?
http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/yak/typing/TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.html
http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/yak/typing/typing.html
Executive summary of the talk:
1. Type checking in C and Pascal sucks.
2. Just because static type checking is a failure in C and Pascal
doesn't mean you have to give up on the idea.
3. Languages like ML have powerful compile-time type checking that is
successful beyond the wildest imaginings of people who suffered
from Pascal.
4. It is probably impossible to get static, ML-like type checking into
Perl without altering it beyond recognition.
5. However, Perl does have some type checking mechanisms, and more are
coming up.
Maybe I should also mention that last week I had a dream in which I
had a brilliant idea for adding strong compile-time type checking to
Perl, but when I woke up I realized it wasn't going to work.
