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From: Perry The Cynic <perry@cynic.org>
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> Optional strong typing is very attractive. Does anyone know of a language
> that has this feature?
Dylan does. Dylan is a new-ish OODL (object oriented dynamic language)
that was designed to allow good-quality code generation (not easy for
an OODL, where all typing is dynamic and anything could potentially be
mutated at runtime, even object definitions).
For reference: Andrew Shalit, The Dylan Reference Manual, ISBN 0-201-44211-6.
I'm not here saying that Dylan is a good (or proper) replacement for ICON,
of course. It's a very different language, with very different goals.
Cheers
-- perry