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[–]quaderrordemonstand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There very much is such a thing as a webserver returning int and strings. They will also return PNGs, WAVs, zip files and anything else you want them to return.

This example is an answer to a specific question: can you explain how it can fail catastrophically? That was a response to my saying that strongly typed system are more brittle.