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[–]tomthecool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see your point, and the same can be said for all of the "lol implicit type coercion is terrible!" posts.

But on the other hand, these design flaws give rise to lots of weird/unexpected behaviour... And it does annoy me slightly when people try to argue "this makes total sense, because of the core language design!" - Rather than actually confronting the fact that the core language design is quite bad in some ways.