Is there any real possibility/example of useful `weak' typing policy implementation?

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Published on 2010-05-09T12:51:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 12:58 UTC
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Are the implicit type coercions the absoulte evil? Or the history does know a decent implementation of what I've never heard..

Is `weak' typing doomed to be implemented in a way it is done in PHP, Javascript etc.?

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