in reply to Re^3: Bring back the smartmatch operator (but with sane semantics this time)!
in thread Bring back the smartmatch operator (but with sane semantics this time)!
When do you consider something a number?
I personally would just go for a technical, non-heuristic approach:
- Numbers: 42, $scalar+0, $scalar having a defined numeric context slot
- Non-numbers: 'quoted string', $scalar
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