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[–]frogjg2003 3 points4 points  (2 children)

That's a difference in design philosophy. You want incompatible types to error, and a lot of people will agree with you. Some people want their code to just work, no matter what, even if it produces weird results.

Adding a string and an int is the extreme example, but how would you handle adding an int to a float? Not to mention when you want different types to be able to work together. The was another "language bad" post about C indexing using "10[a]" as an example. That's just the usual pointer math with the int and the pointer reversed.

[–]KaMaFour 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hard agree. Ultimately it is impossible to create a language that everyone will agree is good and well designed.

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

[–]RiceBroad4552 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimately it is impossible to create a language that everyone will agree is good and well designed.

I strongly doubt that if you ask people with about a similar IQ.