Nobody thunk it, nobody knew...is Perl really Perl without dynamic types.

Well according to the Perl .Net documentation it is:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Perl/Reference/Products/PDK/PerlNET/Reference.html

Now standard with the Perl Dev kit and every installation from ActiveState:
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1012886123.html

Parrot looks like the more approriate technology for Perl:
http://www.parrotcode.org/

The reason is always the same:
http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html#id333518

Of course, they didn't put checked exceptions in .Net (or anything else) which some people think was a mistake in Java. I think it's one of the best ways to catch some of the most obvious mistakes in programming. But some people disagree.

Bruce Eckels says:
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions

MS says roughly the same thing:
http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0011A&L=DOTNET&P=R32820