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Re: [MacPerl] FNG

At 21.51 -0500 1999.01.27, Ronald J. Kimball wrote:
>This is a characteristic of all the bitwise operators.  The Camel remarks,
>in the explanation of the binary bitwise operators:
>
>  If both operands are strings (and have not been used as numbers since
>  being set)...
>
>It doesn't say anything specific about unary ~, but it must work the same
>way.

I don't get it.  This doesn't answer the question of which is preferred,
number or string, if neither has been used and both are set.  At least, I
don't think it does.


>BTW, doesn't print treat everything as a string?

Yes, of course, I thought of that in my reply to Vicki.

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