Re: checking fo string

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Ben Kelly wrote:

> Personally, I think the real solution is to remove automatic
> string<->number coercion; on a stylistic level, it's weird, with two
> types getting special treatment, and on a pragmatic level it seems to
> cause far more problems than it solves, especially when using the C API,
> where it actually *mutates the stack* rather than just implicitly casting.
> Ben

I'm beginning to think I'm the only one that likes this particular feature.

Well, automatic coercion from the C API I don't find too useful, but within 
Lua itself
I've found it can unclutter pattern matching functions a little bit.

- Alex