From: Thomas Preymesser <thopre@...>
Date: 2009-03-04T22:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: fixnum problem plz help

2009/3/4 William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>
>> This is because for all we know, ask("") is returning "2" and 365
>> times "2" is a string containing 365 2s.  At least in such a inferior
>> language as Ruby.
>>
>>
>>
>> In more strongly typed programming languages such as Common Lisp,
>
> Typo.  Should be Commune Lisp.
>
>> you'd get an error:
>>
>> C/USER[929]> (* "2" 365)
>>
>> *** - *: "2" is not a number
>
> Commune Lisp:
>  (* "2" 9)
>  *** ERROR!!! ***
>
> Awk:
>  "2" * 9
>  18
>
> Ruby:
>  "2" * 9
>  "222222222"

C:
printf("%d\n",'2'*9);
450


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