> Well, actually, this has nothing to do with JavaScript The absense of seperate addition and concatenation operators in JavaScript is nothing to do with JavaScript?
> Within an HTML form, fields contain string values. Unless you do a*b or a-b, where it will convert the values to numbers. In the example above, it was doing a*b+c - and since a*b will produce a number, JavaScript should be thinking 'ooh, the +c must be a numerical value, lets do some addition'. But it doesn't. And that's annoying. >JavaScript provides parseInt() and parseFloat() to cast values to integers >and floats, respectively. Yeah, but I can't be arsed typing all that, and I've never encountered any problems with /1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

