Re: Nice little variant compare gotcha

[Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>]

On 31-Dec-04, at 10:03 AM, Brady Duga wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2004, at 7:20 AM, Terry Ford wrote:
> > BTW, Rb finally succumbed to that one. 1+1 no longer = 11. We *won* 
> > that one!
> Well, sort of. As I recall, changing that led to all sorts of other 
> problems. Basically, avoid variants if you can, and when you can't 
> make sure you explicitly specify what type of data you expect to get 
> out of it. Runtime oddities are no fun to debug on your users machine 
> - make the compiler complain for you.
Exactly. That thread went on far too long; and in the end, your point 
was well explained. Try not to mix apples and oranges whenever 
possible. Convert you data types before you process them and you'll 
have very few problems.
Terry

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