On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:49 +0200, Juerd wrote: > Ashley Winters skribis 2005-10-06 19:30 (-0700):
> > > my Array $a = 97; # dies eventually, but when? > > Runtime -- cannot coerce Int value to Array > It is fully determinable at compile time. 97 will never be compatible > with Array, so I see no reason to wait. If I added a multisub for Array assignment so that assigning an integer value set the length of the array, would 97 be compatible with Array? > Do remember that some programs run for weeks or months, rather than a > few seconds. It's nice to get all the certain failures during compile > time. How about in unreachable code (which I do actually believe compilers can detect some of the time)? -- c