Re: Lua 5.3: 1 Month of use

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-03-04 11:27 GMT+02:00 Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us>:

> I think Lua 5.3 may be a good time to remove all coercion from string
> to number and from number to string from the language.

String to number, yes. Number to string, no.

> It means you should not be able to do this:
>
>     answer = "6" * 7

One can always define metamethods for strings, so I can live with this.

> or this:
>
>     print(string.format("the answer is %s", 42))
>

Actually "%s" allows anything. The Lua equivalent of Python "%r".

> print(string.format("%s",io.stdin))
file (0xb7719ac0)