Thank you Will but I consider "A = 1" to be an assignment of the number 1 being the result of expression "1" which in my books is numeric.
To clarify this point for others... "anything on the right hand side of an assignment symbol (in this case "=") is an expression" Cheers Trevor Ockenden OSP ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:35 AM Subject: Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing > In a message dated 3/30/2004 12:35:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > You are partly correct when you say UV treats all data as strings. However, > > if the UV programmer is careful he/she can get it to do maths processing. > > Variables within UVBasic are string unless the result of an expression is > > numeric whereby it becomes numeric. > > > > UV stores numeric data such as dates, time and numbers as a > > string value with no decimal point etc. quite deliberately. > > Trevor partly right. However the MvBASIC statement "A = 1" makes the variable A into a numeric typed datum. I'm not sure you could say this is "the result of an expression" being mathematical, after all Store is both a string and a numeric command. The system converts the loading of a purely numeric argument into a LOADN or STOREN type command on some MV systems, which the loading of a string is a LOAD or LOADS or STORES or something similar to that. > Of course the programmer just says A = 1 or A = "DOG" and doesn't have to worry about how the argument is typed in the run engine. > "Run Engine" Will > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG 6.0. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.642 / Virus Database: 410 - Release Date: 25/03/2004 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
