Re: == and != don't work as expected

in reply to == and != don't work as expected

Perl is a weakly typed language. Unlike C, for isntance, if you wanted to create a number then a string you could do:

my $string = 1;
$string = "code";  # we can reuse the variable name
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versus:

char* mystring = "this is a C style string";
int   myInt    = 1; // Can't reuse variable names
                    // plus need to declare the type
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You will find this paradigm called DWIM (Do What I Mean) by a lot of people. Basically, part of the price we pay for DWIM is that the interpreter doesn't choke and die on ambiguities, but makes a best guess.

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