Re: Arithmetic on strings

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 08/07/2012 11.03, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> The people who like coercion do not use tonumber.  Their programs will
> break.
>
> The people who actively dislike it all claim to be using tonumber
> anyway,  Their code won't need to change.
>
> Is it kind to campiagn for something that will harm only other people?

:-)
I must confess my incoherency here: even if I'm mildly in favor of 
removing coercion, I use it. And no, my programs don't usually break... 
but I think code reliability has nothing to do with language features.

--
  Enrico