On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:52:18PM +0000, Damian Conway wrote:
> I'd suggest that redundancy in syntax is often a good thing and
> that there's nothing actually wrong with:
>
> my Date $date = Date.new('June 25, 2002');
I would say it is not always redundant to specify the type on both
sides
my Dog $dog = Greyhound.new('black');
> And, furthermore, that you could easily define special semantics
> for void-context constructor calls via undef'd but typed variables,
> so that you could just write:
>
> (my Date $date).new('June 25, 2002');
So that would be creating special case syntax for
a specific case of a general issue.
Graham.
