[PD-dev] mystery type generated by [list trim]

A student just discovered this strange behavior. Basically, if you get something that generates a symbolic atom that has numeric data in it, you can then create a mystery type by feeding that thru [list trim]. Don't know exactly where the problem is, but something fishy is going on. My guess is that [list trim] should output a float.

See attached patch:

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