Strong Typing?

[bcholmes]

Geek question:

What is the feature of a language that you consider "strong typing"? How does strong typing manifest itself (or not) in your favourite language or two?

Comments

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

IANAJP (yet), but I think it's um. Java is even a strongly typed language but they decided to not do operator overloading and then made a sole exception for String concatenation, so println is a bit of a kludge of doing the math if they can figure it out and casting any other objects to Strings if not. That's probably not even a total understanding because 1 isn't an object, so I don't know if they're sticking a new Integer on the heap just so they can cast it to a String or if they have some other way of turning stack numbers into Strings, but it's a muddle either way.