[Rails] 12 / 16 = 0

[Jeroen Houben]

Jonathan Weiss wrote:
> Jeroen Houben wrote:
>> Gábor SEBESTYÉN wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2006.04.02., at 10:16, Jeroen Houben wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just thought it was weird that Ruby doesn't automatically cast ints 
>>>> to floats. Seems so un-rubyish
> 
> No, this is exactly why Ruby is a strong dynamically typed language. 
> Doing autoconversion is a very bad thing as unintentioned things can 
> happen.
> 
> If I tell the computer to dived two integers, I get an integer back. If 
> I tell the computer to contatinate two strings I get a string back. If I 
> tell the computer to add a string to a number Ruby should tell me "I 
> can't do it".
> 
> That's the whole point abouot strongly typed languages!

That's the kind of answer I was looking for. So I can definitely see why 
  strongly typed languages are safe and predictable and all, but why 
(just out of interest) does PHP (and in the future phython?) have it?

Jeroen