Re: Integer division in Lua with numbers as longs

[ramsdell@... (John D. Ramsdell)]

> A user of the patch has suggested to me that Lua's division and
> modulus operator should satisfy the same equation as C's integer
> division and remainder operators.

I see this topic was recently discussed in another thread I happened
not to be following.  I concluded that integer division should work as
it does in Python, and changed the patch to define division as
follows.

#define luai_numdiv(a,b) ((a)<0==(b)<0||(a)%(b)==0?(a)/(b):(a)/(b)-1)

John