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> On Aug 1, 2018, at 2:01 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's already out in Lua 5.4. Compatibility with 5.3 comes in a metatable.

No entirely true. Only arithmetic operators no longer do string to number conversion. I too assumed this meant no more string to number conversions, but I checked the code. Turns out that the following is still valid (ignoring the silly quotes from my email client):

for i = “1”, “10”, “2” do print(i) end