Re: stopping numification

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: stopping numification
Date: 17:06 on 24 May 2005

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:55:07AM -0600, Gordon Haverland said:
> So, what differentiates a string of '1' from an integer of '1' from a 
> float of '1.0'?

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at but the thing that 
differentiates them is that, err, they're different. Or at least, a 
string of '1.0' is different from a string of '1'.

If anything, everything but the primary autoincrement key should be
stored as a string then.

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stopping numification
Simon Wistow 15:46 on 24 May 2005

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