On Jan 5, 11:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paddy: > > > Not really, it seems to me to be going the exact opposite way with > > languages with automatic type conversions being seen as not suited for > > larger programs. > > In Java you can add the number 1 to a string, and have it > automatically converted to string before the string join... What do > you think of that feature? > > Bye, > bearophile
Hi Bearophile, Unfortunately, (fortunately?), I don't know enough Java. I can just get by reading correct Java programs so could not really comment. If Java is flexible enough to allow the '+' operator to be defined between strings and integers and left it to the programmer to define the result then that would be a good thing, but having the language automatically define conversions between unrelated types would break strong typing which I have read that Java enjoys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Strong_and_weak_typing - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
