Forcing string comparisons, or When is "0" not 0?

[Mark Waddingham]

Unfortunately we already had 'is a' :(

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> On 15 Oct 2015, at 18:16, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> We have to be able to do better than "is really a".  If anything, "could be
> a" and "is a" would be more helpful, where "is a" tells us what is going on
> under the hood and "could be a" lets us know what we can do with the
> container.
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> We added 'is really a' operators in LC8 to help with writing code which
>>> needs to preserve values exactly (the main use-case is lcVCS) - so we
>> have
>>> been considering an 'is really' operator.
>> 
>> Soon to be accompanied by the 'damnit, I mean it!' command . . .
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> 
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