Perl is worse!

[Tim Peters]

[Steve Lamb]
> ...
> Because 1 + "foo" doesn't work.  Sure, in perl you get 1, but you
> don't get blown out of the water because of it.

Steve, in case it isn't clear yet, Python programmers *want* to be blown out
of the water when doing something as senseless as

    1 + "foo"

You don't.  I'm sure you'll agree that's a fair summary of the rest of the
18Kb of debate too <wink>.

[not,a,list]-ly y'rs  - tim