Perl is worse!

[Steve Lamb]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:34:27 GMT, Grant Edwards <ge at nowhere.none> wrote:
>I'm not ignoring that case.  I'm stating that I want to do the conversions
>explicitly rather than implicitly.  Why do you find it so difficult to
>believe that "I want X" when I tell you "I want X"?  I'm _not_ trying to tell
>you that "you want X" or "you should use X".  I am trying to tell you that "I
>use X" because "I want X".

    Fair enough.  So why can't we have both?  Why can't we have variables
which are mutable and those that aren't?  Just because something can be
changed doesn't mean it can't be forced into a certain context.  

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