What I'm saying is that most people don't seem to leap this direction, so we really don't see many posts wondering why it's only a simple scalar.

I tell ya, with all the places I look, I don't see it being questioned very often.

Maybe that's because we do a good job of describing it in the llama, so only non-llama-ites make that leap. {grin}

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