Re: Must "attempt to get length of a number value" be an error?

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

On 5/7/19, 4:55 AM, "lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org on behalf of Dirk Laurie" <lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org on behalf of dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

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    > #-5
    stdin:1: attempt to get length of a number value
    stack traceback:
        stdin:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in ?
    > debug.setmetatable(0,{__len=math.abs})
    0
    > #-5
    5
    
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I like to give your crazy ideas at least a few brain cycles before I check out, but I'm wondering where you're going with this. I don't think I know enough math, but do math people have opinions about how long a number is, before they take mushrooms?