Re: tonumber() inconsistent behavior

[Dirk Feytons <dirk.feytons@...>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:50, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dirk Feytons <dirk.feytons@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a specific reason why the behavior is different when a
>> non-default base is given?
>
> Hard to think why they must behave in such different ways. Especially
> since tonumber({},10) doesn't throw an error - so the behaviour
> depends on a parameter, not on the form.

Indeed, and I can see in the underlying implementation the root cause
of the difference in behavior: luaL_checkany() + lua_isnumber() +
lua_tonumber() versus luaL_checklstring().


-- 
Dirk