• orangeboats@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is why I try my damnedest not to write in weakly typed languages.

    string + object makes no logical sense, but the language will be like “'no biggie, you probably meant string + string so let’s convert the object to string”! And so all hell breaks loose when the language’s assumption is wrong.

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      4 months ago

      You don’t necessarily need types for that kind of thing though, a strict linter that flags that code works just as well

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      4 months ago

      Some automatic conversion is fine.

      a=3+0.2

      print(“Hello {name}. You are {age} years old”)

      That kind of thing. But the principle of least surprise definitely applies. If you get to the point where you’re adding two booleans and a string, I feel like the language should at least say something. At least until the technology exists for it to physically reach out of your screen and slap you.