New autocast feature!

[WilliamL]

I thought this was a syntax error but I see now (thanks to ts-soft) that it is a new feature!

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EnableExplicit
Define a.i=10
Define a$

;a$=a ; this is ok and gives a syntax error
a$="This="+a ; gives 'This=10' and no syntax error
;a$="This="+Str(a) ; should be this?
Debug a$

[ts-soft]

It is a new feature of PB5.10 LTS, autocast number to string!

//edit

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

[WilliamL]

Thanks ts-soft!

I missed that!

That is about the only explanation I could think of but it never occurred to me that it was a new feature.

I thought that I might be losing my mind.

Maybe I should change my subject line to something more descriptive?

...I don't see that line in the Announcements. Where is 'History'?

[later] I found the line here http://www.purebasic.com/news64.php at the PB site. That was version 5.1 (like you said).