Little problem with the "+" operator

[Alex Martelli]

"Blake Winton" <bwinton at tor.dhs.org> wrote in message
news:slrn9b35m0.lkh.bwinton at tor.dhs.org...
    [snip]
> >Well, Perl's the only language that I know of that lets you add 500 to
> >"cool" without an error.  Well, I suppose tcl might.  But it's still a
> >fairly safe inference that the original poster was coming from Perl.
>
> Two words.  Visual Basic.

The expression
    x = 500 + "cool"
gives a runtime error 13 (type mismatch) in Visual Basic 6.

Even in *VBScript*, with its weaker-yet typing...:

== file boo.vbs
wscript.echo 500+"cool"
== end of file

D:\pybridge>cscript boo.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.1 for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-1999. All rights reserved.

D:\pybridge\boo.vbs(1, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch:
'[stri
ng: "cool"]'

D:\pybridge>


So, I don't know what you mean...!


Alex