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		kstrauser 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme I use to love writing Perl. It's great fun to create! But this is exemplary of the reasons I abandoned it in the late 90s. It's not so much weakly typed as randomly typed.

kqr 8 months ago [–]

Which part? The fact that bare words are taken as literal strings before => is one of the very features of => and not random at all.

Likewise, 1.1.1 doesn't have a sensible interpretation as a number, so surely it must be a version? Hardly random.

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