"...if you run that last one and type 3+5-2, you get 3+5-2.(string "3+5-2", not the
number 6)"   --Jacques

Hi Jacques,

Well, this is about data types.  Unfortunately, Perl tends to haze up the issue by 
doing away with explicit types and doing everything implicitly.  In a programming, as 
opposed to scripting, language, the assignment statements would have equivalents:

$calc=3+5-2;
int calc = 3 + 5 + 2;

    $calc=$_;
    string calc = $_;

Joseph


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