July 7, 2000
6:59 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:
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.
As it stands, with both 8-bit strings and Unicode strings, i think this would result in too much hidden complexity -- thinking about this can wait until we have only one string type. We could consider this after we unify strings, but even then it would take some arguing to convince me that automatic coercion is desirable. -- ?!ng