Re: Unexpected error using tostring

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Di. 5 Mrt. 2019 om 11:02 het Magicks M <m4gicks@gmail.com> geskryf:
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> I see. It's a bit annoying that implicit nil is not returned as "nil" given that no value is supposed to be represented by nil

The Manual puts it less prescriptively: "it usually represents the
absence of a useful value."

You can very easily make tostring do what you want.

    local _tostring = tostring; tostring = function(s) return _tostring(s) end

Try it out for a week or so and decide whether you still prefer it.