Int to String

[davisdude]

Reading is difficult!

It's the ulgy trooth

Reading is difficult, though!

You code is ulgy and be able to break the check with metatable/__add meta handler.

Yeah, I know, it was just a joke.

[T-Bone]

I've always done it like this

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as_int = 42
as_string = "" .. as_int

Not sure if there are any advantages/disadvantages over tostring. I guess tostring is more readable, while my way is more compact (which is helpful when putting many strings and numbers together).

[DaedalusYoung]

I think with your method, if at some point as_int accidentally is nil, it will crash, while tostring simply converts the nil value to the string 'nil'.