Re: string.format a nil value

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 24 Aug 2006, at 09:02, jason zhang wrote:

> if I pass a nil value to string.format function, it will raise a  
> error and the interpreter quit.
> For example,
>
> string.format("%d",novalue), where novalue is a nil variant.
>
> Why not outputing a "NIL" like string? It think it's not very  
> friendly to print a error information and
> exit.

Wether it exits or not is entirely up to the C code that calls the  
Lua code.  It doesn't have to exit just because lua_pcall indicated  
an error.

drj