Re: Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]

David Steuber <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> However, how do you explain this oddity in a language that
> values the principle of least surprise?

I'll be surprised if Perl is such a language.

> $ perl -e 'print "true\n" if ("1" == 1);'
> true

$ perl -we 'print "true\n" if ("1 apple" == "1 orange");'
Argument "1 orange" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
Argument "1 apple" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at -e line 1.
true
.

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