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scott_wlast Wednesday at 5:16 PM0 repliesview on HN

Not in the standard language functions. If you wanted to achieve this, you have to write your own parser. That parser is, by definition, not the language parser, adding a level of difficulty to proving any correctness of your program.

There's a reason the term "stringly-typed" is used as a criticism of a language.