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- Subject: Re: Possible string conversion problem
- From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@...>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:46:43 +0900
Eugen-Andrei Gavriloaie <shiretu@gmail.com> writes:
> "Conversely, whenever a number is used where a string is expected, the
> number is converted to a string, in a reasonable format."
>
> So, they adopted a "reasonable" format for converting numbers to
> string. I think it is "reasonable" enough to adopt a format for boolean
> values too.
I think the common view is that Lua should move to doing _fewer_ such
automatic conversions, not more. They generally seem to cause more
trouble than they're worth.
The "tostring" function is there, use it and be happy.
-Miles
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