From: Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Who said strong typing is a benefit?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:00:40 GMT
Date: 2002-10-13T13:00:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA96E28.9090104@worldnet.att.net> (raw)
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> What does the interpreter do when you add a 3D vector to a 2D vector,
> or do "if A > B" where A and B are complex, etc. I don't doubt that
> it will "perform operations no matter what" - I'm just curious what
> those operations might turn out to be.
>
My favorite response to this kind of question is "what will Matlab do
when you take the square root of a string?"
Jim Rogers
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-13 1:18 Who said strong typing is a benefit? steve_H
2002-10-13 2:53 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-13 18:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-13 3:24 ` Richard Riehle
2002-10-13 7:10 ` tmoran
2002-10-13 13:00 ` Jim Rogers [this message]
2002-10-13 13:30 ` Florian Weimer
2002-10-13 17:28 ` Michael Bode
2002-10-13 22:07 ` Florian Weimer
2002-10-13 19:53 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 19:31 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 15:33 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 17:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-10-14 1:21 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-10-13 19:42 ` steve_H
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