On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $x = 1; >> $y = "2"; >> $z = $x + $y; > > [...] an implicit conversion from int > to string is performed on $x and then the '+' operator then concatenates > the two strings. Other way around -- the string is converted to an int and the result is a number. (This is relatively unfamiliar behaviour, which is why it came to mind first as showing weaker typing than in other languages.) "." is string concatenation in Perl, not "+". Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
