Perl is worse!

[Grant Edwards]

In article <dp3dkulamd.fsf at mraz.iskon.hr>, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

>For me, 1 and "1" are clearly not two numbers.  The former is a
>number, the latter a string consisting of the character "1".  Saying
>that they are numbers because we "see" they're numbers is like
>insisting one 1 + "one" to return 2 because "one" is so obviously a
>number.

And obviously 1 + "Grant's age" should evaluate to 30.  But it
doesn't.  Not even in English.  At least not since sometime in
the late 80's.

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