Javsahit typing

[The Natural Philosopher]

God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be '105'...

Makes you long for C...

[Peter Michaux]

On Oct 17, 6:13 am, The Natural Philosopher <[e-mail]:

God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be '105'...

<URL: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_21>

It works as advertised: see Standard ECMA-262 section 11.6.1.

Peter

[xhy_China]

On Oct 17, 9:13 pm, The Natural Philosopher <[e-mail]:

God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be '105'...

Makes you long for C...

you can use parseFloat(String) or parseInt(String) to change the type
to what you want

[Randy Webb]

xhy_China said the following on 10/17/2007 11:01 PM:

On Oct 17, 9:13 pm, The Natural Philosopher <[e-mail]:

>God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be '105'...

Makes you long for C...

you can use parseFloat(String) or parseInt(String) to change the type
to what you want

You can use them to change to Numbers, but not "what you want" as
neither will convert to anything but Number.

As for parseInt, be very careful with it or you might be back asking the
question in the FAQ with parseInt.
--
Randy
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[xhy_China]

On 10 17 , 9 13 , The Natural Philosopher <[e-mail]:

God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be '105'...

Makes you long for C...

you can use parseFloat or parseInt

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <11***************@proxy01.news.clara.ne
t>, Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:13:20, The Natural Philosopher <[e-mail]:

>God., t took me an hour last night to add two numbers together..

Before trying to program in a language, one should try to learn
something about it and to appreciate how much or how little one knows.

>Yo would have thought that the people who dreamed up this shit could
have made a slightly more sensible way of arranging typing than to
declare all variables typeless, and have a function to turn a typeless
thing into a number so that you could actually make '10'+'5' not be
'105'...

They did. If you had read the FAQ carefully you would have seen it. If
the FAQ were better written, you would not have needed to read it so
carefully. See also <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-
maths.htm#UPM>.

And there are occasions when combining '10' and '5' should give '105'...

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