OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at lanset.com> Jun 01, 2004
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Patrick Barnes wrote:

> Now, in the implementation of this, there would be some kind of tag on the
> variable (inside the interpreter) that would remain attached to the
> variable even if it was cast to a generic type (object, in this case).

For the case of literals and expressions, there is no tag to look up. For 
example:

   ? "a string"
   ? aString & " another string"

In these cases, the best Euphoria can do is determine that they are both 
sequences.

-- David Cuny