From your earlier part:

The main difference, roughly speaking, between a strongly typed language and a weakly typed one is that a weakly typed one makes conversions between unrelated types implicitly, while a strongly typed one typically disallows implicit conversions between unrelated types.
You then imply, in Example 2 in the "Weak Typing in Perl" section, that using the numeric + operator on a Perl string is "implicit" and therefore weakly typed. As chromatic once remarked:
What's implicit about using numeric operators on strings? If you use string operators on strings, you get string behavior. If you use numeric operators (which you must do explicitly), you get numeric behavior. What isn't explicit about that?
Update: The same argument applies to your "Example 1" in that applying the Perl string concatentaion operator to a number is explicit. Perl is different (and superior IMHO) to many languages in that it does not overload + to mean both numeric addition and string concatenation.

In reply to Re^3: Strong typing and Type Safety.A multilanguage approach by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Strong typing and Type Safety.A multilanguage approach by nikosv

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