A string doesn't equal itself

[Mark Wieder]

Bill-

Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 4:54:35 AM, you wrote:

> If you are feeding the engine "9.114E+715806" it seems you couldn't really
> complain that it treats it as a number.

Since that's the only one you put quotes around, I'd argue that yes,
you can complain about it. I would think the quotes would say "don't
evaluate anything within". That's how you pass variable names instead
of variable contents, and it could get disastrous if they got
evaluated within the quotes.

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-Mark Wieder
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