note 5146 deleted from language.operators.comparison by sniper

Note Submitter: dhosek@excite.com ---- Agreed about the bogosity of the comparisons and loose typing. What I've found is a workable way to insure that your type is what is expected: If you want to guarantee a string suffix the variable with . "" (that is concatenate an empty string to the end). The value is unchanged, but the type is forced. To guarantee an integer, suffix with +0 (same effect, although a non-numeric string will be transformed into 0). [Or you just cast your types - Ed.]