Re: Patch to remove auto-casting between numbers and strings

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> on 9/8/06 5:21 AM, Reuben Thomas at rrt@sc3d.org wrote:
>
> > 2. Would it be interesting enough to make it a compile-time option? From
> > looking at the code it would seem possible to replace internal calls to
> > various tonumber and tostring options with "casttonumber" and
> > "casttostring", which could have appropriate compile-time definitions.
>
> I would strongly endorse making this a compile time option. If someone
> passes the wrong sort of data to a routine, I'd rather detect it than try to
> work around it.

I'm going to wait for feedback from my initial patch (now on 
the wiki's PowerPatches page) before working any more on it.

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