Re: Serialization of math.huge

[GrayFace <sergroj@...>]

On 30.05.2012 0:53, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> Yes. You need to create a global variable called "inf".
> Then standard Lua (5.1 and 5.2) can do it.
> ----
> loadstring = loadstring or load
> inf = math.huge
>
> function testinf()
>     local s=tostring(math.huge)
>     local f= loadstring("return "..s)
>     return f()
> end
>
> print(1/testinf()) -->  true
> print( testinf()==inf) -->true
> ----

It won't work. tostring(math.huge) = "1.#INF" in VS.

P.S. BTW, NANs need very special treatment as they can't be used as 
table keys.

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Sergey Rozhenko                 mailto:sergroj@mail.ru