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Re: Nice little variant compare gotcha

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Subject: Re: Nice little variant compare gotcha
From: Brady Duga <duga at ljug dot com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:03:12 -0800
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On Dec 31, 2004, at 7:20 AM, Terry Ford wrote:

BTW, Rb finally succumbed to that one. 1+1 no longer = 11. We *won* that one!

Well, sort of. As I recall, changing that led to all sorts of other problems. Basically, avoid variants if you can, and when you can't make sure you explicitly specify what type of data you expect to get out of it. Runtime oddities are no fun to debug on your users machine - make the compiler complain for you.

--Brady
The La Jolla Underground

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