Due to the success I had in the past asking technical questions in this blog, I will make another attempt, please note that I looked around before asking, but was unable to come up with an answer by myself. This question was asked by one of my colleags here.
In Javascript you can assign a number to a var in the normal way
var x;
var y;
y = 3;
alert(y); //(shows 3)
y=4+6;
alert(y); //(shows 10)
//And so on, math seems to work pretty well.
//But something else that works is:
x = [3];
alert(x); //(shows 3)
x=[3+7];
alert(x); // (shows 10)
//But here is the interesting part:
alert(y+x); // (shows 1010)
I haven't found anything about this in documentation, it seems that though until that point it does treat them as numbers, the fact that x is enclosed in [] turns the result into a string. Can anyone give a complete explanation about this feature?