>If I were to describe this, I wouldn't call it a bug, but I would call it
>a "feature". Under the circumstances, I still hestiate to rely on this in the
>future.
>
>Agree?

Sorry, George, but I'm with Jim on this one. :-) The expression you're passing _is_ a character string: "123".

TYPE("123") = "N"
TYPE("'123'") = "C"