Weak Type Ability for Python

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-04-13 08:25:51 -0700, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-04-13, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
> > On 12Apr2023 22:12, avi.e.gross at gmail.com <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I suspect the OP is thinking of languages like PERL or JAVA which guess 
> >>for you and make such conversions when it seems to make sense.
> >
> > JavaScript guesses. What a nightmare.
> 
> So does PHP.

Not in this case. Like Perl (Not PERL) it has different operators for
concatenation and addition. So $a + $b is always addition, never
concatenation.

Well, at least numbers and strings. For arrays its a (somewhat bizarre)
union.

        hp

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