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Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by duaneb on Friday March 27, 2015 @05:04PM (#9278987)
Well, dynamic types are still types. :) It also seems strongly typed through a lack of implicit conversions between types.

I would say this is more like go than anything, though it seems to lack methods (and interfaces) and includes a functional syntax.

You're going to run into issues when attempting to extend polymorphism for built-in functions to user-defined types—imagine trying to figure out how to sort an 'unknown' type without a way to compare them without modifying the method to be explicitly aware of the new type.

Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by asQuirreL on Friday March 27, 2015 @08:05PM (#9279846)
There does seem to be a method/interface system (Under the "Methods, Protocols, Implementations" header). And it seems to have some sort of dispatch system for tagged structures that can be later modified by the user.
Re:Tulip – An untyped functional language by jneen on Friday March 27, 2015 @08:18PM (#9279886)
Exactly! This is what the @method / @impl system is for - it's about equivalent to clojure's defprotocol. Future plans include named protocols consisting of multiple methods, and protocol-based matching.