On 08/09/2018 10:16 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:00:48 +0200 > Pablo Rodriguez <oi...@gmx.es> wrote: > >> I guess that backwards compatibility should be important here, but I >> hope there are stronger reasons for breaking it. > > tonumber() provides backwards compatibility. And the recommendation > to use it was in the third edition (of the lua book), if not before, > referring to 5.2.
I realize that the fault is mine, but with backwards compatibility I meant that the same operation (10 + "10") gives different results with different Lua versions. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
