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- Subject: Re: Infinity as index
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:18:43 +0200
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Lukas Prokop <admin@lukas-prokop.at> wrote:
> Why shall we discuss it? Because this is non-intuitive for me:
> > a = "hello world"
> > inf = 1/0
> > = a:sub(inf)
> hello world
But it would never occur to me that +-inf is a valid integer, and I'm
probably not alone. It's simply non-defined behaviour. To force these
odd values to have a meaning (outside their use as math.huge - an
upper bound) seems non-intuitive.
