Re: "or" shortcut does not work - but why?

[Andreas Rozek <Rozek@...>]

Thanks for the quick reply - I applied the patches mentioned on
the given web page but they didn't affect my problem  (well, to
be honest, I also did not expect that)

Currently, I'm checking ttisnil and its companions - perhaps, I
am able to locate the problem there...

>>   local Result = false;  -- you could also use "nil" here
>>     Result = Result or "anything else";
>>   io.stdout:write("Result = '"..tostring(Result).."'");
>> 
>> yields "false" (or "nil", resp.) rather than "anything else"
>
>Perhaps this is related to this bug, which apparently only surfaces in
>Windows: http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2-2

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