As the thread author points out in his reply to my post, programming across multiple languages teaches you safe techniques for approaching problems. Sometimes this means typecasting values where there could possibly be any confusion over its meaning.

You can argue that usage of parenthesis is a waste of time.. if one understands the order of the evaluation of the operators then typing ( or ) is wasteful. Further, I'm sure you would argue that understanding the exact order of evaluation of operators is fundamental to programming in Perl. But then this would also demonstrate a lack of experience programming in multiple languages, as not all languages treat precedence the same way.

Therefore one can afford a new programmer to a language the mistake of typecasting something unnecessarily. One can never afford to excuse the programmer who dangerously, however, coding assuming things would just turn out as they expect without much experience behind them.

In reply to Re^5: Formatting randomised data by monarch
in thread Formatting randomised data by Manawydan

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