15 Oct
2010
15 Oct
'10
1:05 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+la(a)mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Other way around -- the string is converted to an int and the result
is a number. (This is relatively unfamiliar behaviour, which is why
it came to mind first as showing weaker typing than in other
languages.) "." is string concatenation in Perl, not "+".
Chris
$x = 1;
$y = "2";
$z = $x + $y;
[...] an implicit conversion from int
to string is performed on $x and then the '+' operator then concatenates
the two strings.