Re: Serialization of math.huge
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- Subject: Re: Serialization of math.huge
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 2012年5月29日 18:40:43 -0300
> On C99 systems, we used to be able to use string.format("%a", foo) for
> this, to get a hex float. Unfortunately, some poor-quality (but
> standards-compliant) C library implementations (ie, Micorosoft's)
> explode in a sticky pile if you pass format modes they don't support,
> rather than just ignoring them. So modern Luas check what format
> strings are used and avoiding anything that isn't in C89.
I am not sure what is your concept of modern, but at least since
version 4.0 Lua refuses unknown format modes:
$ Lua 4.0.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio
> print(format("%a", 13))
error: invalid option in `format'
(Maybe you mistaken 'string.format' for 'os.date'.)
Lua 5.2 supports "%a" (and "%A") when available and reads back that
format as numerals.
-- Roberto