I should first clarify one of the three options I mentioned in my 
original email:

"1) Perform the multiplication on the raw data of the string, that is 
the ascii value - this is arguably what would happen in some cases in C, 
since a string is just an array of int8's.".

I think actually that C may do something even stranger...

char string1[30];
char string2[30];
int result;

main()
{
   result=string1*string2;
}

result will probably me the multiplication of the *address* of string1 
and string2.   Which is almost certainly what you don't want.

But to respond to Rolf's reply:

Rolf wrote:
> The language that does that is called perl ;-)   (admittedly, it's 
> interpreted, not compiled).
>
> Now, we could talk for years about the typing nature of perl, and still 
> not come to a resolution (B.T.W, I love perl for certain things... 
> theres nothing better for a quick hack).
Yep, I know about perl ...   And although typless is probably not 
accurate, strongly-typed may not be also.   I would probably say it's 
more like "the type of the data in the variable (string, integer, float) 
is irrelevant to the programmer in most cases".

-forrest
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