I'm not sure about comparing strings to numbers. But I know I appreciate it when I can query my database with: SELECT * FROM orders WHERE delivery_day b

I'm not sure about comparing strings to numbers. But I know I appreciate it when I can query my database with: SELECT * FROM orders WHERE delivery_day between '2023-04-10' and '2023-04-12' Instead of using SELECT * FROM orders WHERE delivery_day between PARSE_DATE('%Y-%m-%d', '2023-04-10') and PARSE_DATE('%Y-%m-%d', '2023-04-12') So I can see why language designers put in some implicit conversions.