Another easy one:

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This is a rather intriguing idea. Personally, I love the idea of having an easily accessible math expression evaluator built into the language. However, Val historically have never parsed expressions. Doing this now, would be a breaking change. Perhaps we can expand Val like n = Val("3 * 3", -1), where the second optional argument would tell Val to enable the parser. No promises. Just thinking out loud. 

Personally, I think this would be a terrible idea.  Basically, you'd be moving the math evaluator which we use for CONST and applying it to Val... and I can hear the complaints already!!  "Why isn't this command implemented?  Why can't I do VAL ("3 * INSTR(x$, "foo")")?  Or VAL("(ASC("B")")?  OR....

I predict nightmares for whoever is going to try to implement such.  

Instead, we should consider having a Resources folder, include the math evaluator in it, and then folks can just:

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PRINT Math$("3 * 3")
'$INCLUDE:'./Resources/math_eval.bas'

Now that you've said that... Yeah. The scope creep could be a disaster. This is best left to 3rd party libs.