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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo

 wrote:

quoted text
>> $x = 1;

>> $y = "2";

>> $z = $x + $y;

>

> [...] an implicit conversion from int

> to string is performed on $x and then the '+' operator then concatenates

> the two strings.

Other way around -- the string is converted to an int and the result

is a number.  (This is relatively unfamiliar behaviour, which is why

it came to mind first as showing weaker typing than in other

languages.)  "." is string concatenation in Perl, not "+".
Chris

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