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David E. Cleary said - > > > Other interpretations are doubtless possible, and even make sense in > > particular contexts. There's no guarantee that the string 45.67 in > > fact represents a real number. > > And this is supossedly a good thing? That a producer of the data and the > consumer of the data can disagree about what the data means? I'll take data > typing any day over anarchy. > Tell you what, I'm glad my email client didn't interpret the string '45.67' as a floating point number! Cheers, Tom P
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