Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua)

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Steven Donovan wrote:
>> I'd be curious what a language has to do to be strongly typed by this
>> definition....

I am not a specialist, but it seems that languages like Haskell and Scala are seen as 
(very) strongly typed. At least they have elaborate (and complex) type systems and are 
quite touchy about this. They are at least stronger than Java (with its generics using 
type erasure, although it indirectly affects Scala as well).

On 10/02/2011 11:14, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always understood under strong types no
> implicit//hidden typecasts.

Well, Scala makes lot of use of implicits, but at least they are defined formally... And 
they sure ease the task of the programmer (eg. for Java compatibility) although they can 
bring confusion as well.

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