That's awfully generic and doesn't address the criticism. What are the examples of useful type coertion? What do they achieve? Are there no better ways to achieve those same goals without introducing bug-prone, WAT-inducing behaviors?
For example, string concatenation could have been handled by a separate operator.
To be fair, Eich was required to imitate java and finish in a couple of weeks for marketing reasons, and string + int -> string was one of java's mistakes.
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That's awfully generic and doesn't address the criticism. What are the examples of useful type coertion? What do they achieve? Are there no better ways to achieve those same goals without introducing bug-prone, WAT-inducing behaviors?
For example, string concatenation could have been handled by a separate operator.
To be fair, Eich was required to imitate java and finish in a couple of weeks for marketing reasons, and string + int -> string was one of java's mistakes.