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in thread Static typing is mostly a waste of time

In that case, can you tell me what the square root of a string is?
Not a string, but this is one of my personal favorites... 
print sqrt([42,"abc"]);

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Re: sqrt string?
by hardburn (Abbot) on Apr 12, 2005 at 15:56 UTC

    Interesting. It seems to be taking the square root of MAXINT (2**32 on my platform), with some floating-point storage error in the answer.

    While lacking strong typing might be detrimental in practical programs, it sure is fun to play with sometimes :)

    "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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      You sure its not taking the sqrt of the memory address of the array? 
      $a = $b = ["abc",123];
print "\$a is $a\n";
$a =~ s/\D+//;
print "The decimal value of the address of the array  is ",hex($a);
print "\n";
print sqrt(hex($a)),"==", sqrt($b),"\n";

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        Ahh, yes. That is it.

        "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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