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> I absolutely prefer strict typing myself. The issue becomes whether or not one thinks type coercion should be a thing. As a strong typing fanatic, I'd rather
by dumael 11y ago
> I absolutely prefer strict typing myself. The issue becomes whether or not one thinks type coercion should be a thing.
As a strong typing fanatic, I'd rather have the interpreter/compiler scream at me. In my opinion automatic type coercion is slightly less wrong than undefined behavior in C.
(Aside, did you know that if GCC spots a statically provable null pointer deference, it will insert __builtin_trap() after the deference? I didn't know either until yesterday. This is acceptable because undefined behavior can mean "eat you hard drive".)
If for strings '+' is concatenation, and '*' is for replication with '-' and "/" as exception behavior I can fully understand. (Admittedly '+' over '&' is either style or hard-core "the operation is different, therefore we need a different symbol choice").
Your example worries me. Personally I would not design a language like that.
(Though I may have abused it in the past.)
- Nadya 11y ago>Admittedly '+' over '&' is either style or hard-core "the operation is different, therefore we need a different symbol choice The former more than the latter. The operation is different therefore we need a different symbol choice - and & also makes as much sense stylistically as + does. "string1" and "string2", when read, makes sense. & is different from the conditional && like piping | is different from the conditional or || >Your example worries me. Personally I would not design a language like that. Neither would I, but I like to think it was part of "made in 10 days" that allowed it to stick around.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> "string1" and "string2", when read, makes sense. & is different from the conditional && like piping | is different from the conditional or || Of course, in languages where & and | are already in use for bitwise operations on ints (etc.), using & for string concatenation would be a different form of the same clash as using + is.