Right. If the explanation is clear then it's not an issue (even if it is a little weird - "6.abc"="6.xyz" is false but "6."&CR is "6."&space is true)
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:43 PM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 2018-09-06 18:21, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > > Yeah. IMO automatic type conversion is one of the failure points of > > the xtalk paradigm, but it's always been thus. > > To be fair, in the days of HyperCard when everything was strings (and > numbers were decimal strings) the rules worked absolutely fine I think. > > However, the use of doubles as the internal rep for numbers, and > introduction of arrays broke a few invariants a consistent > implementation of the above view relies upon - hence the annoying points > of friction. > > I don't think implicit type conversion is the problem per-se - just the > precise details of what gets converted to what, and the inability to say > 'at this point, this needs to actually be a <foo>'. > > If you want to be abstract about it then you can view a programming > language as a compression algorithm - it is a way to express a set of > possible outcomes in a linear sequence of text. With that point of view, > they suffer exactly the same problem as any compression algorithm > suffers - all compression algorithms will expand some input. > > i.e. What you might gain in some places in terms of ease / clarity / > ability; you will lose elsewhere - the hard bit is making sure that such > cases are 'edge' cases and easily avoided. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
