From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA27467; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:08:48 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA27302 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:08:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from info.numeric-quest.com (info.numeric-quest.com [204.187.76.36]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f3MH8jH04622 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:08:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 29795 invoked by uid 500); 22 Apr 2001 12:12:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Apr 2001 12:12:34 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:12:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Skibinski To: Jonathan Coupe cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml related article In-Reply-To: <000701c0cb33$e525bc40$a00bfea9@baby> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Jonathan Coupe wrote: > Mark J Dominus' excellent discussion of ML's type system (written for Perl > programmers..) is available at: > http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/typing.html His conclusion though is that it is practically impossible to introduce any kind of static typing to Perl. Contrast it with http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/ti/ti.html where Lex Spoon attempts to deliver a type inference engine to Smalltalk (sic!). Jan ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr