Re: Arithmetic on strings

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, my ideal change would be to remove all implicit conversion between
>> strings and numbers, but provide a default __concat that allows
>> concatenating numbers and strings.
>
> mine would be: remove implicit conversions from the core language and
> C API (making Lua a more strongly typed language) and make
> table.concat() and string.format()'s "%s" call __tostring, which would
> have default values.
>
> --
> Javier
>

They don't already? I thought that had been fixed in 5.2...

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