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  7. Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:19:04 -0600 (CST)
  8. From: Ramon Pereda <rpereda@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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  10. To: Paul Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org>
  11. Cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  12. Subject: Re: Icon translation
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  22. > Frankly, I think one of the weaknesses of Icon is the lack of strong
  23. > typing - or what more accurately I would call "optional strong typing".
  24. > Icon already has declarations - they're just not used for data types.  I
  25.  
  26. Optional strong typing is very attractive.  Does anyone know of a language
  27. that has this feature?
  28.  
  29. -ray
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