Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in

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> What I'm really looking for is a way that we can allow (some?) implicit
> text coercions while getting rid of the sort of misbehavior exemplified
> by that bug report I keep referring to.  Has anyone got any ideas about
> how to do that?  It's one thing to say that "apples || oranges" should
> be interpreted as "apples::text || oranges::text", but it is quite
> another to say that "apples <= oranges" should be handled that way.

Hmm. istm that we might need some information to travel with the
operators, not just the coersion functions themselves. We have a fairly
type-rich system, but need to preserve the ability to add types and a
*partial* set of functions and operators and get reasonable behaviors.
                     - Thomas