Re: Make sure numbers are numbers

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

After all, what is a Lua list without the discussion of idioms?

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:27:56 -0600, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 10:03 -0400, Shawn Milochik wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> >
> > >> "It seemed like a good idea at that time" scares me silly.
> > >
> > > What does it mean "<something> scares <someone> silly"?
> > >
> > > -- Roberto
> >
> >
> > It means frightened to the point of not being rational.
> >
> > Shawn
>
> But what if <someone> is casted to a number? Does it mean 1 becomes
> irrational?
>
> Sorry, keep going, the discussion is actually very interesting.
>
> Jorge