• 3abas@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Sure. And you’re entitled to yours. But words have meaning and this isn’t MY OPINION, it’s objective reality. It follows strict rules for predictable output, it is not nonsensical.

    You’re entitled to think it’s nonsense, and you’d be wrong. You don’t have to like implicit type coercion, but it’s popular and in many languages for good reason…

    Language Implicit Coercion Example
    JavaScript '5' - 1 → 4
    PHP '5' + 1 → 6
    Perl '5' + 1 → 6
    Bash $(( '5' + 1 )) → 6
    Lua "5" + 1 → 6
    R "5" + 1 → 6
    MATLAB '5' + 1 → 54 (ASCII math)
    SQL (MySQL) '5' + 1 → 6
    Visual Basic '5' + 1 → 6
    TypeScript '5' - 1 → 4
    Tcl "5" + 1 → 6
    Awk '5' + 1 → 6
    PowerShell '5' + 1 → 6
    ColdFusion '5' + 1 → 6
    VBScript '5' + 1 → 6
    ActionScript '5' - 1 → 4
    Objective-J '5' - 1 → 4
    Excel Formula "5" + 1 → 6
    PostScript (5) 1 add → 6

    I think JavaScript is filthy, I’m at home with C#, but I understand and don’t fear ITC.