Can't convert string binary literals to numbers

[acreol]

Recently Roblox introduced binary literals so we could write numbers in binary like so: 0b1
But they forgot to add support for parsing the format with tonumber and implicit conversions:
assert(tonumber'0b1'==1) and '0b1'+0 both error
The counterparts for hexadecimal numbers, however, do not error:
assert(tonumber'0x1'==1) and '0x1'+0

Digit separated (1_0) numbers don’t appear to have the tonumber and implicit conversion support either

[buildthomas]

Seems like this should be a feature request rather than a bug report. I don’t think they have specifically worked on implementing this behavior, so it is missing functionality, not a bug.

[Halalaluyafail3 (FindFirstChild)]

Release Notes for 405

tonumber behavior is intentionally not changed for now. Hexadecimal exponent appears to be part of hex floating point literals (Lua 5.2 I think?) that was previously occasionally accidentally available in 5.1 depending on the platform. We could bring it back I guess, why do you need it?

Most likely not a bug.

If you need/want this, this should be a feature request.