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Quoting Modern Perl Books page 15

Perl will do its best to coerce values to the proper type (see Coercion, page 47), depending on the operators you use. Be sure to use the proper operator for the type of context you want.

Quoting Wikipedia

Type Conversion In most languages, the word coercion is used to denote an implicit conversion, either during compilation or during run time.
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Re^7: Strong typing and Type Safety.A multilanguage approach
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 20, 2010 at 18:12 UTC

    Allow me to assure you that the author of Modern Perl disagrees with your interpretation of his words.

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