Re: tostring vs. nan, inf

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 14:58, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> As opposed to other numbers, for inf and nan tostring() returns values
>> that Lua can not read back:
>
> In Lua 5.1 can convert "inf" and "nan" with tonumber. (But not in Lua 5.2.)
>
>> one can simply define them as global variables
>
> This seems to me to be a good compromise if you want to convert those
> values frequently.

Wouldn't work for Windows ( 1.#INF) with stock Lua.

Alexander.