Concatinating Constants into a string doesn't work with decimal numbers

[timshannon]

If you drop this code into the web app you'll be able to see the issue:

--[[const]]
WHOLE_NUMBER = 30
--[[const]]
DECIMAL_NUMBER = 0.1


local test = "test,"..WHOLE_NUMBER

local test2 = "test,"..DECIMAL_NUMBER

pico-8 cartridge // http://www.pico-8.com
version 42
__lua__
local l,l="test,30","test,".. .1
__meta:title__
[[const]]

[timshannon]

For anyone else running into this, the workaround I've found is to change the decimal numbers to a string since they are ending up in a string anyway.

--[[const]]
WHOLE_NUMBER = 30
--[[const]]
DECIMAL_NUMBER = "0.1"


local test = "test,"..WHOLE_NUMBER

local test2 = "test,"..DECIMAL_NUMBER

Result:

pico-8 cartridge // http://www.pico-8.com
version 42
__lua__
local l,l="test,30","test,0.1"
__meta:title__
[[const]]

[thisismypassport]

The reason I didn't implement this is because it would need to match the pico8 tostr implementation, which doesn't seem trivial to me - it doesn't give the same results as just printing the decimal value to 4 digits.
Of course, I could always investigate it more deeply and reimplement it.

[timshannon]

Super low priority to me now that I have a work around, but might be worth noting the behavior in the README until / if a fix comes.