Re: String to number conversions

[Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 1:28 PM Robert Virding wrote:

So in some case a string integer becomes a float:

> "123" + 1

124.0

> math.abs("123")

123.0

while in some other cases no conversion is done:

> math.max("123", -2.3, 1)
attempt to compare string with number

BTW, I've asked similar question about S2N-conversion anarchy in Lua
See question #5 in my post http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2019-02/msg00049.html