At 15:25 -0600 02/07/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Yeah, I know about float precision, integer(h) and all that, I just don't
>remember strings defaulting to floats when added; I always thought they
>stayed integers?
It appears to be an artifact of implicit type coercion. Try this:
-- Welcome to Director --
h = "5"
put h + 10
-- 15.0000
put value(h) + 10
-- 15
In the first case we're implicitly forcing a string to a number,
which appears to turn it into a float. In the second passing it
through a value filter appears to transmogrify it to an integer.
Dunno if it's always done that or not, since I've always used value
for explicit type coercion. ;)
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