Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Weakly typed languages do not prevent you performing operations on > mismatched types, e.g. something like 1 + "1" is allowed in languages like > Basic and Perl.
Actually, Perl and at least the version of BASIC that I previously used are not weakly-typed languages either. The addition operator in Perl uses coercion much as Python does/supports for some operand types, and classic microcomputer BASICs generally suffixed variable names in order to impose some kind of static typing. One classic example of a weakly-typed language is BCPL, apparently, but hardly anyone has any familiarity with it any more. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
