Sure. And you’re entitled to yours. But words have meaning and this isn’t MY OPINION, it’s objective reality. It follows strict rules for predictable output, it is not nonsensical.
You’re entitled to think it’s nonsense, and you’d be wrong. You don’t have to like implicit type coercion, but it’s popular and in many languages for good reason…
Language
Implicit Coercion Example
JavaScript
'5' - 1 → 4
PHP
'5' + 1 → 6
Perl
'5' + 1 → 6
Bash
$(( '5' + 1 )) → 6
Lua
"5" + 1 → 6
R
"5" + 1 → 6
MATLAB
'5' + 1 → 54 (ASCII math)
SQL (MySQL)
'5' + 1 → 6
Visual Basic
'5' + 1 → 6
TypeScript
'5' - 1 → 4
Tcl
"5" + 1 → 6
Awk
'5' + 1 → 6
PowerShell
'5' + 1 → 6
ColdFusion
'5' + 1 → 6
VBScript
'5' + 1 → 6
ActionScript
'5' - 1 → 4
Objective-J
'5' - 1 → 4
Excel Formula
"5" + 1 → 6
PostScript
(5) 1add → 6
I think JavaScript is filthy, I’m at home with C#, but I understand and don’t fear ITC.
You are entitled to your opinion. implicit conversion to string is not a feature in most languages for good reasons.
Sure. And you’re entitled to yours. But words have meaning and this isn’t MY OPINION, it’s objective reality. It follows strict rules for predictable output, it is not nonsensical.
You’re entitled to think it’s nonsense, and you’d be wrong. You don’t have to like implicit type coercion, but it’s popular and in many languages for good reason…
'5' - 1 → 4'5' + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6$(( '5' + 1 )) → 6"5" + 1 → 6"5" + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 54(ASCII math)'5' + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6'5' - 1 → 4"5" + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6'5' + 1 → 6'5' - 1 → 4'5' - 1 → 4"5" + 1 → 6(5) 1 add → 6I think JavaScript is filthy, I’m at home with C#, but I understand and don’t fear ITC.
Also, you contradicted yourself just then and there. Not a single of your examples does string concatenation for these types. It’s only JS
C# is filthy. But it explains where you got your warped idea of righteousness.