[chriswarbo]

How about we stop calling everything "strings" (and "ints" too, while we're at it)?

  UserInput readFromPost(HttpParam param) {
    // Read param from POST here
  }
  Collection<SqlRow> query(SqlQuery q) {
    // Send query to DB here
  }

  UserInput name = readFromPost('name');
  Collection<SqlRow> result = query(
    sqlConcat('INSERT INTO users (name) VALUES (',
              stringToSql(userInputToString(name)),
              ')')
  SqlInt<10> userId = sqlRowLookup(result, 'id')
  sendToBrowser(htmlConcat('You are user number ',
                           sqlIntToString(userId)))

Clearly we can get better APIs than this, but it's not as difficult as you make out to program in a safe and sane way.