Invisible wrote:
> And then I learned Haskel, which is *completely different*. ;-)

Try then APL, or LISP, or FORTH.

>> Heck even Visual Basic has such as "variant" type.
> Is VB statically-typed yet?

AFAIK, it has always been statically typed since before they put the word 
"visual" on front.

>> I think Pascal has the same thing too.
> Not any dialect I've seen.

Yeah. Google for "pascal variant record". It's a case statement inside the 
record declaration.

> Smalltalk has a nice idea: Absolutely everything is an object. Including 
> the entire fricking IDE. Shame about the performance though, eh? 

The performance was actually pretty good when you put it on a CPU built for 
it.  Of course it's going to run like crap on a CPU designed for a 
statically typed stack-oriented language like C or Pascal.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   but to different destinations.

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