Re: boolean operators

[David Given <dg@...>]

Nick Gammon wrote:
[...]
> Thanks to this tip, you can coerce strings into numbers right now,
> rather clumsily:
> 
> arg = "5"
> print (- -arg) --> 5

I may be missing something intrinsic, but:

arg = "5"
print (arg+0)

Likewise, some compiler sugar to convert to treat '+a' as '0+a' would be
easy, not involve any additional opcodes, and would optimise away to
nothing in most cases.

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David Given
dg@cowlark.com