Now let’s talk about strong vs. weak typing. Contrary to some beliefs, strong does not equal static. As a matter of fact, these type systems are independent of each other. There can be static but weak type sys
And I won't be surprised that ten years from now, everybody will see the evolution from weak-typed to strong-typed search as a natural one. In exactly the same way we see today the benefits of strong typing in modern programming languages... Comments Anonymous January 17, 2005 please i...
Conversely, weak typing means that you can mix types without an explicit conversion. Consider this example from Perl: DB<1> print "1"+1 2 DB<2> print "1".1 11 Note that conversion is not the same thing as coercion, IMO. Coercion occurs when you have a statically-typed language and ...
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Typing strength is a continuum;MLis more strongly typed thanJava, which is more strongly typed thanC. Strong or weak typing is independent of the choice betweenstatic typinganddynamic typing. Among strongly typed languages,Ada,Java,HaskellandMLare statically typed, whereasPythonandRubyare dynamically...