9 Aug
2018
9 Aug
'18
10:16 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:00:48 +0200
Pablo Rodriguez
I guess that backwards compatibility should be important here, but I hope there are stronger reasons for breaking it.
tonumber() provides backwards compatibility. And the recommendation to use it was in the third edition (of the lua book), if not before, referring to 5.2. Alan