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Re: Pre-RFC: builtin:: functions for detecting numbers vs strings

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Josh Juran
Date:
February 25, 2022 16:28
Subject:
Re: Pre-RFC: builtin:: functions for detecting numbers vs strings
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On Feb 24, 2022, at 9:04 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:

> I wonder if we can find some sort of "has"-like wording, that fits
> these? While I don't think these are good names as such, I think if the
> names had been something like
> 
>  builtin::has_truthiness
>           has_numberness
>           has_stringiness
>           ...
> 
> Then it would be less surprising that something like the $! dualvar has
> both numberness and stringiness, as it would be to find out that it
> *is* both a number and a string.

"has_number_nature" and "has_string_nature"?

Josh
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