strong/weak typing and pointers

[Gabriel Zachmann]

>  (1) Weakly-typed languages allow you to take a block of memory that was
>  originally defined as one type and reinterpret the bits of this block as another
>  type[1]. (This is the definition usually used in Programming Languages
>  literature.)

So, according to that, Perl is strongly typed?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Gabriel.

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