Assignments to uncast dummy fields (was Re: simple comparison failing)

[Barry Wiseman]

Tyler wrote:

> Hmmm...how does filePro decide if xx="0" is meant as a string or a
> numeric?  It could be either, depending on the context you use it in
> later.  What about things like "00019", where you would want to keep
> the leading zero?  Wouldn't it make more sense to have all undefined
> variables be of edit * than automagically assigning them an edit type?

If you tried it using the test template Ken provided, you would see that 
operations like xx="0" or xx="00019" *do* result in an * edit for xx. 
filePro makes no assumptions about literal strings assigned in this 
manner, just as seems logical to you.

Only expressions that explicitly perform a math operation, like Ken's 
final example, will result in xx receiving a numeric edit type.