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Re: another take on hackers and painters

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Subject: Re: another take on hackers and painters
From: Matt Hellige <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:06:22 -0500
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[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]
> At 5:00 PM -0400 5/20/03, John Clements wrote:
> >...
> >
> >Depends what you mean by "a type problem."  If I'm adding a number 
> >and a string, that's definitely a "type problem,"
> 
> Is it? What's wrong with 1 + "3" producing 4?

Wow... That just makes me cringe... And sets off my "perl proximity"
alarm. By the same token, why not have 1 + "3" produce the string "13"?

Different strokes, I guess... :)

Matt

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