2009/1/28 Jonathan Kimmitt <jonathan.kimm...@csr.com>: > Most people on this list seem to defend the perl design decision such > that > > if ($item == "xyzzy") > > should only emit a warning, because after all, a string can be converted > to a number with no loss of meaning (!). >
It's not so much a matter of defending the "perl design decision" in this particular matter as being aware that if you have a dynamically typed language such as Perl then you are never going to be able to deal with all cases like this at "compile time" adequately. /J\ -- http://rabidgravy.com/ - Music http://gellyfish.co.uk/ - Everything else