This is why I try my damnedest not to write in weakly typed languages.
string + object makes no logical sense, but the language will be like “'no biggie, you probably meant string + string so let’s convert the object to string”! And so all hell breaks loose when the language’s assumption is wrong.
This is why I try my damnedest not to write in weakly typed languages.
string+objectmakes no logical sense, but the language will be like “'no biggie, you probably meant string + string so let’s convert the object to string”! And so all hell breaks loose when the language’s assumption is wrong.You don’t necessarily need types for that kind of thing though, a strict linter that flags that code works just as well