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

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You're probably just channelling old C memories, not BASIC.

char a = 'a';
a = a + 1;
/* a == 'b' now */

If your character is represented as a char/byte, then yes, incrementing it shifts the letter up. But if it's a string then it depends on how "+" is interpreted: either it will concatenate a "1", or, horrors, it will increment your pointer and...

Some BASICs let you work with character codes. Commodore BASIC had tons of poke/peek/call things that were basically invoking magic machine code, so you would probably have been passing char/byte values around.