Re: lua_number2int

[David Given <dg@...>]

Gunnar Zötl wrote:
[...]
> DG> Anything else invoces undefined behaviour, and results in daemons flying out
> DG> of your nose.
> 
> boy, I gotta try that one day... ;-)

It's a vitally important phrase when discussing anything related to C.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html

(Lua doesn't summon daemons, but it still has its own share of 'undefined
behaviour' issues as well. I think it would be amazingly handy to be able to
test for these in a debug situation and trap them as errors. For example, that
hoary old array-with-holes-in business --- I'm quite certain there's
production code out there that suffers from that.)

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