From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2001-12-12T03:22:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28255] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?

Michael Neumann wrote:
> 
> Mark Hahn wrote:

> > The reason I lost the argument was that they claimed it would cause
> > hard-to-find bugs if someone meant: "1".to_int + 1.  They claimed it was
> > ambiguous.  To me it is obvious that "1"+1 means a string and 1+"1" means an
> > integer (because of message passing).
> 
> What about:
> 
>   "1#{ 1 }" ???

or:
    ["1", 1].to_s

This is nice if your array is large.

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