Re: Mixing strings and numbers

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Steve Heller wrote:

> I thought a variable had to have a type (at any given
> time), and that comparisons had to be to the correct type.

The operators > < >= <= require their operands to be both
numbers or both strings; the operators == ~= have no type
requirements (although two values of different types are
always considered unequal).

--
Aaron
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