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[–] CrazyEddie041@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Conversations about language aside, the error is that "Monday" is a string with a length of 6.

[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What is the type of the variable day though? As it is we have to make multiple assumptions, based on popular programming languages, about the internals of the string type and the print function to assume that it prints "6".

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

There is a fairly good chance that there has been more info presented in the class than we have been given here.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

That's the variable name, not the type