July 7, 2000
6:28 p.m.
Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
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Anyway, i still agree that it's best to avoid automatic coercion between numbers and strings -- since it's now very easy to say int("3") as opposed to import string; string.atoi("3"), there's really no excuse for not being explicit.
I want to be clear that I'm not asking for automatic coercion between numbers and strings but rather automatic coercion of any type to string. -- Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus Pop stars come and pop stars go, but amid all this change there is one eternal truth: Whenever Bob Dylan writes a song about a guy, the guy is guilty as sin. - http://www.nj.com/page1/ledger/e2efc7.html