Re:Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches
by dragonwriter on Thursday January 30, 2014 @08:03PM
(#7154573)
> That never stopped JavaScript, Python and friends from giving them equal truthiness.
Implicit casts -- including to booleans -- are dangerous, but if you try to write APIs to try to avoid every bad thing that might happen with naive use of implicit casting in every language that might be used to consume your API, you won't be able to do anything at all.
Implicit casts -- including to booleans -- are dangerous, but if you try to write APIs to try to avoid every bad thing that might happen with naive use of implicit casting in every language that might be used to consume your API, you won't be able to do anything at all.