Re: Unsigned Integer Literals?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Di. 4 Des. 2018 om 13:10 het Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> geskryf:
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> Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 à 06:42, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> Op Di. 4 Des. 2018 om 01:11 het Muh Muhten <muh.muhten@gmail.com> geskryf:
>> $ /usr/local/src/lua-5.3.3/src/lua
>> Lua 5.3.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> > n=13835058055282163712; print(n)
>> -4611686018427387904
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>  [...]
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>> Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> > n=0xc000000000000000; print(n)
>> -4611686018427387904
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> Personally I call these two examples "bugs" because they generate the incorrect values.

You could argue that the Lua designers thought so too, because:
1. They changed it in te next minor release.
2. Minor releases are bugfix releases.