Pete Cordell scripsit:
> But is that level of semantics helpful to a computer? I'm not sure that
> knowing that something is 32 the number, rather than "32" the string
> would help me much with all the semantic inferencing I can do as a human.
> I would have thought its even less useful to a computer!
Au contraire, it tells you what object to store the value in, at least
in statically typed languages.
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