autocast of numeric values when string are involved

[Zebuddi123]

For those who have not noticed one of the latest additions in 5.10b1

Added: autocast of numeric values when string are involved, allowing to concatenate string and numeric in constants

Very usefull and great addition

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b=10 : a$="a"
Debug a$+b ;  =  a 10

#b=100
#b$="cool"
#a$=#b$+#b
Debug #a$ ; = cool100

; but #a$=#b+#b$ doesnt work

Zebuddi.

[jassing]

Added: autocast of numeric values when string are involved, allowing to concatenate string and numeric in constants

I always liked strong typing, it makes it absolute what you want to do.
Imaging you are concatenating strings -- but you type "Amount" instead of "Amount$" which may contain very different values -- you wouldn't get a compiler error, and debugging might be harder...

[Zebuddi123]

yes true. but i dislike .s for strings so i allways use $.

Merry Xmas & Happy New year to All

Zebuddi.

[netmaestro]

; but #a$=#b+#b$ doesnt work

That's just a bug, Fred's on it. It will work soon.