Instead of looping, use straight-line code with the following
layout:
1. Try to apply the base operation on the dereferenced operands.
2. Try overloaded object operations.
3. Try to convert operands to number, else error out.
4. Apply the base operation on the converted operands.
This makes the code easier to reason about and fixes some edge-case
bugs:
1. We should only try invoking operator overloading once prior to
type conversion. Previously it was invoked both before and after
type conversion.
2. We should not modify any values if an exception is thrown.
Previously we sometimes modified the LHS of a compound assignment
operator.
3. If conversion of the first operand fails, we no longer try to
convert the second operand. I think the previous behavior here
was fine as well, but this still seems a more typical.
This will also make some followup changes I have in mind simpler.