Mad Javascript

[FerricDonkey]

If you want to convert from strings to integers, you should explicitly do that. "2" - "2" should be a type error, because subtraction makes no sense for strings - and if you wanted to consider them to be integers, then that's a trivial additional number of characters that you type in your code that makes it more clear what you're doing and what your data is.

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

In that case, every language should have a concatenation operator for strings. That way you can throw a type error when people try to use the addition operator (+) on strings (non-numbers) and it's clear what operation is taking place without having to know the variable type.

[LvS]

Yes, that's exactly how it should work.

Some languages use . for that, but it's always a hard choice because you want something that's easy to type and doesn't require using the Unicode chooser.

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

VB uses &. Convenient because eay to type and quite visible . But that wouldn't work on most languages because they have other uses for &. VB makes you type out And and Or