I’ve seen the following new line in PHP 7, but nobody really explains what it means. I’ve googled it and all they talk about is will you be enabling it or not like a poll type of thing. declare(strict_types = 1); What does it do? How does it affect my code? Should I do it? … Read more
I’ve come across links that say Python is a strongly typed language. However, I thought in strongly typed languages you couldn’t do this: bob = 1 bob = “bob” I thought a strongly typed language didn’t accept type-changing at run-time. Maybe I’ve got a wrong (or too simplistic) definition of strong/weak types. So, is Python … Read more
I see these terms bandied around all over the place in programming and I have a vague notion of what they mean. A search shows me that such things have been asked all over stack overflow in fact. As far as I’m aware Static/Dynamic typing in languages is subtly different to Strong/Weak typing but what … Read more
My understanding of strongly typed was that the language wouldn’t make implicit type conversions. However, this code converts the char to it’s ascii value and then uses that value. static char x = ‘j’; static int y = 7; public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println(y+x); }
