Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
Date: 7/5/2013 8:22 PM
> The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is support for integers.
I played around with this a bit.  The only thing I found that appears to 
be missing is the ability to determine the actual type of the number.  
That is:

    a = 5
    ttype(a) == 'number'

    b = 5.0
    ttype(b) == 'number

From the C API, it appears that lua_isinteger() will work for the 'a' case.

It would be nice if there was a method to do so in Lua itself.  One use 
case is for serializing integer values to disk in text form properly.

Thanks!

Josh