I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers... :-)

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. :-)

Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)

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