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

[Scott Rossi]

I'm not following all the nuances of this, but it seems you have laid the groundwork for a new operator: is useful

if theVar is useful then...

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design

> On Oct 15, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
> 
> So, anyway, a couple of potential solutions (I think 'is really' is a useful compliment to the 'is really a' operators, the question is whether there is a nice syntax for is_string and whether it is a useful thing to have).