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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 09:27:53 -0600
To: Ramon Pereda <rpereda@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>,
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From: Chris Tenaglia <cdt@post.its.mcw.edu>
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ADA seemed to me to have strong, nearly infinite, mandatory, typing.
It has great scoping features too. But casting/converting all over the
place can make for some pretty ugly code.
Chris.
At 07:19 PM 3/4/98 -0600, Ramon Pereda wrote:
>
>> Frankly, I think one of the weaknesses of Icon is the lack of strong
>> typing - or what more accurately I would call "optional strong typing".
>> Icon already has declarations - they're just not used for data types. I
>
>Optional strong typing is very attractive. Does anyone know of a language
>that has this feature?
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>-ray
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