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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/engineeringmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

function validate(val) 
   try:  
       cast val as numeric
   except:
      print "Oops, not a number"
      cast val as general  ## date or whatever 
end

validate(12.5)     ## returns 12.5
validate("12.5")   ## returns 12.5
validate("12 . 5") ## returns a date maybe

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh my god what cursed Python, Lua, and SQL offshoot is this

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

It's my own grammar, "Luanatic"