On 1/29/06, James Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then why don't we have these: > > $i = integer(5); > $f = float(4.5); > $s = string("foo");
Perhaps because any sane person will know without reading a manual, that " delimits a string, a number without a decimal is an integer, and a number with a decimal is a floating point number. -- --Robert Deaton http://somethingunpredictable.com