* Matthew King <[email protected]> [2008-09-04 17:55]: > Perl can implicitly munge strings & numbers, that's what makes > it simultaneously hateful and not. Databases should do what > they're told.
It works in Perl because Perl has monomorphic operators. If you want the operands treated as numbers you use a different operator than if you want them treated as strings. Python goes the other viable route, with polymorphic operators and *no* value coercion. MySQL... let's not talk about MySQL. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
