Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available

[Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@...>]

Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> writes:

> It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
>> > > I don't know about others but writing larger numbers in exponential
>> > > format like 1e3 is common in my code. For Lua 5.3, those are always
>> > > floats. This has interesting consequences:
>> > >
>> > > for i = 1, 1e3 do
>> > >   print(i) --> always int
>> > > end
>> > >
>> > > for i = 1e3, 1, -1 do
>> > >   print(i) --> always float
>> > > end
>> 
>> Note that this corresponds to the usual arithmetic rules.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > > This is probably not a big deal since I could use 10^2 instead.
>> > 
>> > Oops, no I can't. Exponentiation always converts operands to float
>> > too. I guess there's not a good shorthand for large integer constants?
>> 
>> 1000? :-)
>
>   Easy for that case---no so easy for 2^48.

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