Re: Mixing strings and numbers

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <369646.36347.qm@web81609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you 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.

It does not have to be. The code is quite legal. Check it out.
Try

 print ( "type abuse is disgusting" == 2006 )

at the lua prompt, to convince yourself.

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