On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:41 PM, 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.
It looks like you are misremembering (or maybe an older version than
5.1?):
Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
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!
-Duncan
