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EugeneOZ on May 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes

Dynamic languages can convert types in runtime (so 1 + "f" = "1f") and not so many languages (not only dynamic) cares about mutability.

dragonwriter on May 19, 2017 | [–]

Supporting an addition operator that accepts mixed type operands has no relationship to being dynamically typed.

saghm on May 20, 2017 | | [–]

From quick check, it looks like Java can do this coercion, and it's not dynamically typed.

poooogles on May 19, 2017 | [–]

This is weak typing not dynamic typing.

1 + f in modern Python results in a ValueError.

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