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by semiquaver 1312 days ago
> No nonsense coercion

Given that the focus is on being unambiguous I found this line a bit amusing. Maybe it’s me but I can’t tell for sure whether this describes a quality of the language’s coercion mechanism or a promise that the language will include no such “nonsense” like e.g. javascript :)

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This means the language will never coerce things for you implicitly. Booleans are true and false not 1 and 0 or “true” and “false” etc.
You could argue that hiding ints and floats behind “num” is implicit conversion
Fair point