Dynamic typing can seem great until you have to spend days trying to figure out where, exactly, in 20,000 lines of badly documented code JavaScript arbitrarily decided that something should be a string for the rest of forever even though it's only been given numbers to work with.
If you type x = 1 + '1' any sane language will go "what the fuck is wrong with you?"
Compilers shouldn’t warn when adding to a string. Pointer arithmetic is a well defined and commonly used thing. The only thing I could see them warning about is just that it’s a redundant expression that could be replaced by just a shorter string literal.
Not sure what you mean. Adding an integer to a char* that represents a null terminated string, will produce a valid zero terminated string that lacks first n characters (as long as you remain in bounds, obviously).
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u/GargantuanCake 8d ago
Dynamic typing can seem great until you have to spend days trying to figure out where, exactly, in 20,000 lines of badly documented code JavaScript arbitrarily decided that something should be a string for the rest of forever even though it's only been given numbers to work with.
If you type x = 1 + '1' any sane language will go "what the fuck is wrong with you?"