Oh. I'd been assuming that quote marks indicated strings, and that, while a string containing only digits could obviously be treated as a number (as in Perl 5), it wouldn't be one without being provoked.
Correct.
What about:
$x = '0345';
Is that a number?
Nope. A string (unless C<$X> is otherwised typed).
What about if the variable contains a line read from user input? As a programmer I'd expect that to be a string
You'd be right (unless, of course, the variable's storage type forced a coercion during the assignment).
Damian
