Re: tonumber() on negative hexadecimal strings

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 20/04/2011 20:47, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> My point is that either tonumber accepts "-0x10", and therefore
> returns the correct value, or it does not accept it, and therefore
> returns nil. There is no other option.

Perhaps an option to say in docs that the result on negative values with 
bases other than 10 is "application-dependent", or "undefined". (Not 
that I like it).

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Shmuel