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Re:In Java 3 = 12 by pmontra on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:45AM (#15702126)
Ruby is like Python, Perl and JavaScript are like Java. Type coercion has little to do with being strongly or weakly typed, dynamically or statically typed, interpreted or compiled, which are orthogonal axis. It's more like syntactic sugar to save a str(), a .to_s or a printf pattern. Maybe the Java implementation just overloads the + operator and converts the types inside it.
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Re:In Java 3 = 12 by ubernostrum on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @03:06AM (#15702203)
Strong/weak is not a useful thing most of the time, but when people do try to define it, often they do so in terms of the presence and number of implicit conversions the language will perform for you in order to allow operations to succeed despite being provided operands of the wrong type.

Also, overloading the "+" operator is basically what Java is doing, which is an odd inconsistency for a language which doesn't allow end-user code to do operator overloading.

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