>>>Since I write this value to a log file, I want to be sure that it is always a string, not a numeric value. Can you think of a case where program(program(-1)-1) will give a numeric value?
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>Whenever potentially different vartypes are involved you might consider a Transform() wrapper. Transform() has been included for years in West Wind script compilation where it avoids vartype errors at very low cost.
Thank you.
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