Re: Numeric for loop with rationals

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-01-29 09:57 PM, dyngeccetor8 wrote:
> On 01/30/2018 02:16 AM, Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
> > On 2018-01-29 09:00 PM, dyngeccetor8 wrote:
> > > On 01/29/2018 04:52 AM, Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
> > > > I can't get `for x=r(1, 10), r(10, 10), r(1, 10) do print(x) end` to work.
> > > Me too.
> > It errors that they aren't numbers. Ofc they aren't Lua numbers, they're custom
> > numbers.
> >
> > It saddens me that Lua doesn't support custom numbers as well as other languages
> > (namely Python). :(
> Because it's numeric "for".
>
> There is generic "for" for iterating other things.
>
> -- Martin

Please don't post xkcds without (at the least) a link to the source. 
It's a violation of the xkcd license https://xkcd.com/license.html

Also, rationals are still numbers. They're just not "Lua numbers" 
(objects with type(x) == "number"). Any language with operator 
overloading (e.g. C++) lets me have numeric for with rationals. Except 
Lua. (Python doesn't have numeric for at all so it doesn't count.)

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