On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Sean Conner
<sean@conman.org> wrote:
The conversion of var, limit and step to numbers is preventing the use of
custom types that cannot be converted to numbers:
for i = "1" , "10" , "2" do print(i) end
BTW, about the conversion:
Lua 5.4.0 Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> "2"+3
5
> "2"+"3"
5
The result is an integer! And I like it!
> for j = "1", 2, 3 do print(j, math.type(j)) end
1.0 float
> for j = 1, "2", 3 do print(j, math.type(j)) end
1 integer
> for j = 1, 2, "3" do print(j, math.type(j)) end
1.0 float
Why does the loop variable hold not an integer sometimes?