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On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:13 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans < leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > I wonder if we're going about things the wrong way, regarding strings > vs numbers, equality test operators, smartmatch, and a bunch of other > ideas. Maybe - maybe - now that we can distinguish strings vs numbers > a little better, there's a way we can make a single operator Do The > Right Thing. > > Comments welcome - on blog or replied here. > > I like where you're going. However, sooner or later, we're going to need to address the type problem up front. I suspect, however, that we're going to punt on the type problem and build things into the language that are workarounds/heuristics. Those workarounds/heuristics might preclude some later type opportunities, or we might need to rollback some workarounds/heuristics. This is not a good place to be. Is there any interest in discussing the actual issue with the lack of types? (by types, I mean the kinds of non-reference data a scalar can hold and the operators allowed on them). Best, Curtis "Ovid" Poe CTO, All Around the World World-class software development and consulting https://allaroundtheworld.fr/Thread Previous | Thread Next