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tikhonj on Feb 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing

JavaScript with "use strict"--which is basically the modern version of JavaScript, but has to be enabled explicitly because of backwards compatibility--also warns you about assigning a variable that hasn't been declared. Just shows that JavaScript really was influenced by Scheme :).

draegtun on Feb 25, 2012 [–]

Ditto for Perl. And with modern Perl(s) this can be switched on with new language features using...

  use 5.010;  # or 5.012 or 5.014 and soon 5.016

akkartik on Feb 25, 2012 | [–]

Ah, thanks both.

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