Re: Make sure numbers are numbers

[Henk Boom <henk@...>]

On 20 April 2010 09:41, Stuart P. Bentley <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
> One case where I've actually encountered unavoidable issues with a Lua
> design due to type coercion was something like this, if I recall correctly:
>
> num_table{[2]="This gets printed instead"}
>
> index_searched_for="2"
>
> print(num_table[index_searched_for] or "Even though this is what should be
> printed!")
>
> If I've got that right and am not mis-remembering the problem, then Lua 5.2
> should make the change that type coercion never comes into play when
> indexing tables.

Doesn't seem to be an issue to me:

> num_table = {[2]="This gets printed instead"}
> index_searched_for="2"
> print(num_table[index_searched_for] or "Even though this is what should be printed!")
Even though this is what should be printed!

    henk