Re: FLASH: Adding to a Variable (no, concatenating)

[John Dowdell]

At 12:52 PM 4/17/0, Helen Triolo wrote:

> it seems that Flash will concatenate either a string or a

> number variable equally.  Is that everyone else's experience

> too?  It seems wierd to me, but it's very useful in loops....


Yes, there's automatic coercion across datatypes like that. This is more

common in scripting languages than in pure programming languages where

you'd have to explicitly cast types.


(Yup, I'm showing off with esoteric geek language here. ;-)



But yes, you're right, that type change is handled automatically. Thanks

for drawing that distinction between addition and concatenation!  8)


jd






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