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Larry Garfield

@IceWolf + means both addition and concatenate, in a language with no explicit types.

Nothing in PHP comes close to that level of dumb. (And PHP has plenty of dumb.)

18 January at 3:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on phpc.social
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Frost, Wolffucker 🐺:therian:

@Crell really? *waves paw at the OP* :3

but personally I don't mind the + thing at all, since /usually/ it's clear from context. There are worse things!

18 January at 3:04 | Open on masto.brightfur.net
Evert Pot
Larry Garfield

@evert @IceWolf Because in practice it bites you about 10000x as often as "a string that happens to start with 0e will get coerced to 0 if you try to use it as a number."

Addition and concat are two of the most common operations. Using the same symbol for them when the types are inherently unknown is begging for trouble.

18 January at 6:57 | Open on phpc.social
Evert Pot replied to Larry

@Crell @IceWolf well in the example it's not 'tried to use as a number's it's 2 strings being compared no?

18 January at 7:19 | Open on indieweb.social
Evert Pot replied to Larry

@Crell @IceWolf comparing 2 strings seems common as well :P

18 January at 7:21 | Open on indieweb.social
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