Perl is worse!

[Steve Lamb]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:25:36 GMT, Garry Hodgson <garry at sage.att.com> wrote:
>you can see that because you are smarter than my computer.

    And so can the designers of the language and they can code the steps to
get there, just as they have coded the steps for everything else.

>the system can't know which i intended, so it makes be specify.
>it is much easier to say, "yes, i meant that" by adding a cast,
>than to debug an errant program, possibly years later.

    I find the reverse true, esp. when one understands the rules under which
conversion might take place.

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