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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2022-04-04 21:08:50 -0700
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2022-04-04 21:08:50 -0700
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start test cases for <cons.h> material.
Small documentation tweak. Numerous bugfixes as a result of testing: null, endp, stringp, symbolp, box, unbox, cdr, equal all found to have some issues.
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@@ -623,10 +623,12 @@ function creates a Lisp object from a native Awk value
.IR av .
If
.I av
-is a number, then
+is numeric, then
.B box
returns
.IR av .
+Note that a value like \fB"1abc\fB is numeric in Awk and
+behaves like 1 under arithmetic.
If
.I av
is the Awk undefined value, such as the value of a variable that