[OT] Perl woes

[Dominic Thoreau]

2009/1/28 Jonathan Kimmitt <Jonathan.Kimmitt at csr.com>:
>
>        The next time I use == instead of eq to compare two strings, I
> will know to expect it will always
>        evaluate to true. What other language does this (apart from C,
> which would invariably return false)

Unfortunately, this is perl being helpful. Because you've treated them
like numbers, they must be numbers, and the conversion will be done
automatically.

I feel this makes for easier to understand syntax, where other
languages might overload non-alpha operators.
Eg string concatenation in perl is with the . (dot) operator. In some
other well used languages (Java, for example) the + operator is used,
which is an overloading of the addition operator.

Okay, so Java is already using the . for a member variable/method
separator, where perl uses different syntax,

I'm taking a series of courses in Java (don't shun me for this - it's
part of my OU degree), and I did comment the grumble to the tutor that
it won't let you overload these operators yourself for your own
objects (like, say, C++ will). His comment was that it was a trade
off, sacrificing power in the hope that responsibility was also
lessened, but I'm not sure it was a good design decision.
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