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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by oliverkyss on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:51AM (#12344687)
Java: 11

I guess companies should stop using Java for big enterprise applications with tons of dependencies. Or this isn't a problem because programmers usually know the basics of the language they are using. And if they don't, then that is the problem, not the language.

btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by crdoconnor on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:52PM (#12345775) 

   Main.java:17: error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to int
    int z = x + y;
>btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'

In theory I agree with this but in practise I see this so rarely used it barely matters.

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by oliverkyss on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:15PM (#12346036)
Sorry, I meant "11" (String), same result as with JS.

see here: https://repl.it/Cqeq/0

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by Ar-Curunir on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @12:21PM (#12344937)
The python example is not an issue; you're going from string to a longer string, not to an integer.
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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by oliverkyss on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:48PM (#12345741)
That's not true, you're going from string _and_ an integer, because '*' is a binary operator. (And it isn't communicative as shown here, which is another 'problem')

But that's not really the point, crdoconnor seems to think that languages should throw an error in cases like this, not just keep the type of the first argument.

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