On 4 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote: > SEE!! this is why static typing is bad! > :) Static typing? I'm having a marvelous time trying to imagine it. All I come up with is a sort of pilobilus-modern-dance-thing with figures in black posed, frozen, above a keyboard in strange postures, while colored lights strobe an illusion of movement. So no wonder you're having difficulty. Turn off the damn strobe lights, and take off the black suit! Your friends can, of course, continue to hang around as long as they keep their hands off of the keyboard:-) rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx