Re: Odd result from arithmetic with nil

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I have some code that creates an object of a date type
> (very similar to the one from PIL) and then subtracts
> it from nil. I would expect this to raise the "attempt
> to perform arithmetic on a nil value" error, but it
> doesn't; instead, I get a result of nil. Does this
> make any sense?

Perhaps this is related to http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2-2 ?

> I can post code if it would help.

Please do.