Re: Platform-dependent variations in numeric conversions

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

> > > return  tonumber('-0x12345678')

> There is certainly some inconsistency there, and perhaps the Lua code 
> should detect the leading "-" sign, if it is going to do the hex 
> conversion itself.

I ran into this some time ago in testing my 32bit implementation
of Lua for the ARM7.

Lua does not handle a leading - in number conversions, it's
a unary minus operator as far as the parser is concerned.

Ralph