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On the future of Perl 5On the future of Perl 5Posted Dec 7, 2008 2:05 UTC (Sun) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by sbergman27 Parent article: On the future of Perl 5
> And just to make a point:
> > --- >> x = "0" >> y = -x > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: bad operand type for unary -: 'str' > --- > > In perl that would have silently become a numeric 0. Oops.
I don't get the point you're trying to make. When or why would Perls' behavior be an "oops"? Or put another way, what problem would this cause in the code?
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