Re^2: is_numeric

  return eval { ! ref $x and $x == $x };
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is a light weight way to fix that case.

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Re^3: is_numeric by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 12, 2007 at 01:37 UTC
But if you do that, objects that overload numerification to return a number won't be considered numbers...	[reply]