In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/10/2008
at 03:49 PM, Wayne Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But to add to the confusion,
There should be no confusion if you keep in mind that everything is a
string.
>X = 2 + "2";
You're adding 2 and 2; 2 and "2" are different ways of expressing the same
value.
>Both converted to numerics!!
REXX recognizes the string 2 as being numeric; it doesn't matter how you
express it, just what the value is.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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