Questionable numerical abilities by Python! Implicitly calling a length function without warning...pic.twitter.com/15KxTkSMFW
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strings are strings, regardless of their content. Do other languages deal with this differently?
Apparently R is just as crazy, doing implicit length() calls... but javascript returns 10, so it implicitly converts to float
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and does so intelligently because given it non-convertible strings results in NaN.pic.twitter.com/xNGwiWAYhn
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I'm no coder, but I'd take consistency over intelligently adapting any day of the week
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js calls a conversion on input consistently, it's just that taking the max of NaNs gives NaN too.pic.twitter.com/A11a0jbvol
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