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- Subject: Re: 5.3.0-work3 and lossless integer conversion
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:36:00 -0300
> > The other place where truncation (already) occurs is "outside" Lua,
> > in the API, when the C code uses things like lua_checkinteger. This
> > is the only place where the change would affect compatibility:
> > string.sub("abc", 2.3) currently behaves in a non-specified way
> > (although most certainly it is equivalent to string.sub("abc", 2)
> > and we are afraid some programmers assume this behavior); current
> > 5.3w specifies that 2.3 should be truncated to 2, while with this new
> > proposal Lua would raise an error.
> >
>
> Are you saying that a float value would return an error, or a non-integral
> value would return an error?
A non-integral value would raise an error, as an out-of-bound float
already raises an error in work3. Something like 10.0 still behaves
like 10 in most situations.
-- Roberto