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- Subject: Re: Integers-related trap in Lua 5.3
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 09:47:38 -0300
> > IMO, both Lua parser and tonumber() function should return correct
> > float values in case of integer overflow.
> > This can be done safely as it does not break the main feature of integers:
> > integers will stay integers after tonumber(tostring(x)) conversion cycle.
>
>
> Or nil.
Some time ago I suggested 'inf' for these cases.
-- Roberto
