[kstrauser]

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]

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.