Re: Lua 5.3: wrong coercion?

[Enrico Tassi <gares@...>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 01:35:35PM -0800, Tim Hill wrote:
> print(“42” + 1)
> —> 43.0
> print(tonumber(“42”) + 1)
> —> 43

I've to admit I was puzzled too... but I guess we all want

  print("42" + 1)

to behave like

  local x = "42"
  print(x + 1)

so the ony coercion triggered here is the one documented for arithmetic
operatos, that clearly turns "42" into "42.0" (x is a string, we want
no coercion mapping "42" into an int/float in my second example).

Best,
-- 
Enrico Tassi