That's the first thing I thought. Either everything is treated as a string until math is performed on it, or we have had a crude form of variable typing from the beginning and didn't know it.
Bob S > On Sep 7, 2018, at 20:56 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I'm suspicious enough of the sleight-of-hand that underpins the use of > unquoted string literals not to trust the easy answers, and to think that > under the hood in the engine everything at the script level is an MCString > until necessarily converted internally for computation. And then back again. > > But just guessing. > > -- > Mark Wieder _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
