On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:12:39 -0700 Ulrich Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>Because, in REXX, everything is a string. :>>X = 3 :>> and :>>X = "3" :>> leave the same value in X. :>And in both cases, the DATATYPE of X would be NUMERIC? Yes. :>That shouldn't be. It certainly SHOULD. :>If my intent is to perform a character string comparison and the value just :>so happens to look like a number, I might get bad results due to REXX :>performing a numeric conversion??? That sucks. Then use the appropriate operator, ==. Lack of education sucks. A program working as it is defined is just peachy. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
