Re: Any other way to do this

[Brian Duggan]

On Monday, August 31, Bruce Gray wrote: 
> I finally settled on using `try` instead of numeric coercion, because
> if I am not golfing, I think `try` makes the grep look more like
> “filter out the non-numbers” instead of “get rid of the zero values”.

Another option is to use 'val' -- which parses it as a literal --

  $ raku -e 'say @*ARGS.map: { val($_) ~~ Numeric }' 1 2 3 a 1e10
   (True True True False True)

Brian