Quote #136
Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
More from Larry Wall
- Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
- Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers... :-)
- It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
- I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
- I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
- To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. :-)
- If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're install…
- Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)