Re: Detecting if a scalar has a number or string

Can you count on stringification to work? So with your overloaded object can you do something like _numberlike("$ref") ?

Matt

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Re^2: Detecting if a scalar has a number or string by rrwo (Friar) on Nov 18, 2004 at 18:37 UTC
Counting on stringification is an interesting idea, but not reliable. Suppose I have a roman numerals class that behaves just like numeric variables, but outputs as roman numerals in string context?	[reply]