Replying to my own question here,
The feedback I received at our latest Raku Meetup suggested that pulling in
numeric data off the bash command line is okay--just as long as you know
what you're doing. In the second example below, Raku will convert "1_000"
to Rat 1000 (previously mentioned in
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:27 AM Brian Duggan wrote:
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> 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
