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I’ve just created a PR implmenting the scanf function for the classical parser. Watch it or the ticket for the merge. According to Henrik it should be just in time for 3.7.5 release.

Henrik also pointed me at the nice fact that the future parser will auto-coerce (fail-safely) strings to numbers in arithmetic expressions. This means $var + 0 will be either the numerical value of $var or a compile error.