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Re:A Quick Introduction to R by nightski on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:25AM (#30233298)
I agree with your point that all languages have their quirks. This is a very poor example however. If it automatically converted to float what would you do if you wanted integer division? I think automatic casting tends to get messy/be pretty evil in general but of course there are exceptions.
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Re:A Quick Introduction to R by salamandersauce on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:35AM (#30233397)
You could always do something like: int divRes = IntA/intB; double something = divRes*5.342;

At the very least it could warn me. I just tried it in rust and that will error out if you try to divide two ints and store the result in a float which is fine by me.

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