In article <4eed5eef$0$29979$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> some academic languages may be > entire strong; but most real-world languages include elements of both. > Most commonly coercing ints to floats. Early Fortran compilers did not automatically promote ints to floats. > But not *entirely* different: numbers can be considered strings of > digits; and non-digit strings can have numeric values. I don't know of > any language that allows 1 + "one" to return 2, but such a thing wouldn't > be impossible. It is possible for 1 + "one" to be equal to 2 in C or C++. All it takes is for the string literal to be located at memory location 1. Not likely, but nothing in the language prevents it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
