Re: Conversion of strings to numbers and numbers to strings.

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > This turns out to be because on OS X strtod handles the conversion of 
> > '-0x1', for which we can thank C99, and on Windows (I assume) strtoul 
> > handles the conversion of '-0x1'.  I find the whole situation rather 
> > repellant.
>
>
> That is why we were always reluctant to add hexa constants in Lua.
> (They entered Lua 5.1 by accident...)

Please do not remove them!

--
Shmuel