Re: Mixing strings and numbers

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@...>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:43:24PM -0800, Steve Heller wrote:
> I have a problem with Lua code that I am generating
> from an existing scripting language that has no notion
> of type checking. The problem is in code like this:
> 
> if X ~= "" or X == 0 then X = 3 end
> 
> Obviously this isn't going to be legal in Lua, since X
> cannot be both a string and a number at the same time.
> Can anyone suggest a way for me to handle this
> automatically? There are hundreds of these statements
> that need to be maintained while we are converting our
> system from the existing scripting language to Lua.

What do you want, exactly?  The above code is completely legal.

-- 
Glenn Maynard