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On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:55:18 +1200 Damian Stewart wrote:
> David Morris-Oliveros wrote:
> > What about the types?
> > Does 235 == '235' ?
> 
> aah. it seems id is a string but arm_id is a number.
> 
> i thought lua converted automagically between the two types..?
> 

Not evrywhere ... Just when you clearly want a string (cancatenation).
And it's better like that, or else lua would need the operator === like
php :(

you can always convert string to numbers with tonumber() and number to
string with tostring().

Mildred
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