Re: Function call with number parameter becomes a string parameter inside the function

["D Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

Carsten Fuchs wrote:
[...]
> lua_tostring() from my code.
>
> However, I'm wondering why lua_tostring() behaves in this (somewhat
> surprising) manner? This makes it different from all the other lua_to*()
> functions, and I wonder why this is so??
I guess that the conversion to a string means that the string has to be
allocated and stored somewhere. Numbers and booleans presumably
do not have the allocation issue.

DB