This is disturbing!

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-09-06 18:02, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> dictionary says when comparing strings we go char by char, and says 
> that
> quotes around the literal causes it to be evaluated as a string.

Where in the dictionary? That should be revised.

Quotes make no difference - numbers and strings which look like numbers 
are treated the same... When doing comparisons, the engine tries to 
convert both sides to numbers before comparing, if both sides are 
numbers they are compared as numbers.

Both '1 is 1.0' or '"1" is "1.0"' have the same result.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

P.S. The engine has *always* worked like this - as have xTalks in 
general. It's why you never have to put any explicit type conversion 
anywhere when you are interchanging anything and things still work as 
expected.

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