Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available (number coercion holy crusade)

["Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>]

> Yes, often the result of %d+ is used as a string in my code. Coercing it
> to a number would create more problems and/or inefficiencies (multiple
> unneeded conversions) than it would solve.

"%d+" in a pattern is the same thing as "[0-9]+". It means
"a series of figures". You certainly do not want to coerce
that to a number, because leading zeroes may be significant
(e.g. when extracting phone numbers from strings).

-- 
Pierre Chapuis