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- Subject: Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua)
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:20:08 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>>> So, maybe in e.g. Lua 6, we may complete remove the implicit convert in Lua.
>>
>> And break 95% of happily working Lua programs.
>
> I'd be very surprised if it actually caused much breakage at all
> (... there's an easy way to find out, of course...)
... and of course, even if it does, it's not really a problem -- the
whole point of Lua's major-version upgrade policy is to allow desirable,
but non-backward-compatible, changes.
-miles
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Omochiroi!
- References:
- Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Xavier Wang
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Miles Bader
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Dirk Laurie
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Axel Kittenberger
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), steve donovan
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Axel Kittenberger
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), steve donovan
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Axel Kittenberger
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Philippe Lhoste
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Xavier Wang
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Dirk Laurie
- Re: Is string always same as number? (the consistency of lua), Miles Bader