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From:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Date:
March 9, 2022 17:14
Subject:
Re: Pre-RFC: builtin:: functions for detecting numbers vs strings
Message ID:
20220309171346.5530ac74@shy.leonerd.org.uk
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 16:41:42 +0100
Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org> wrote:

> created_as_number accurately
> describes what the function does in a non-opinionated way, but still
> avoids saying "this is what numbers are" and "this is what strings
> are", which we are trying to avoid.

+1

I like "created_as_{string,number}"

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