On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, deadmeat wrote: > > But that is not what is happening! > > What is actually happening is not my point, the end result that the > programmer sees is, and that is not consistant with what is typed. Sure it is, once you realize that the "1" in "a = 1" is not an integer with the value of 1, it is the object whose name is "1". - Bruce