After this statement:
$x = '345';
C<$x> is a number.
No, it isn't. It's a string. Or, rather, it's a PerlScalar.
I should hope it would be treated as one during multimethod dispatch.
I should certainly hope *not*. If so, it's a bug. We ought to go add some tests to the test suite once we expose this bit of the engine.
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Dan
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