Re: tonumber() on negative hexadecimal strings

[Adam Strzelecki <ono@...>]

> 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).

This will render tonumber() IMHO useless for parsing numbers at all, as it may accept random junk that happens to look like negative non-10 base number and return non-nil value, which indicates that the number is correct.

Regards,
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Adam Strzelecki