[OT] Perl woes and types

[James Laver]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> Wikipedia says that weakly- versus strongly-typed indicates how readily the
> language coerces between types. I'm not sure one can get much weaker than
> Perl on that front.

That's more or less what I based my message on.

Definitions taken from here:
http://diveintopython.org/getting_to_know_python/declaring_functions.html#d0e4188

(Incidentally, when I was learning python, I found DIP to be a very
good resource. I'm told that it's hard if you don't have experience in
other languages, however).

--James