Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 2015年1月12日 11:31:45 -0200
> > 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? :-)
-- Roberto