Jason Orendorff jason at jorendorff.com
Mon Dec 31 23:03:16 EST 2001

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> You /might/ say that it's a bigger deal in statically-typed 
> languages, but I think that's not even the case. Consider the
> trouble that Python has handling coercions and binary
> operators cleanly.

Difficulty with type conversion rules and binary operators
is not unique to Python.  Languages with operator overloading
have these problems, Python no more so than C++ or Ruby.

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/

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