I have long been in the habit of using EQ and NEQ (and now moving to == and !=) for numbers in all cases, since there is no such thing as 'sort of equivalent', like there is with strings ('foo IS FOO' etc). For strings I use IS, unless case is important, and then I use CompareNoCase().
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