Re: Lua workshop: call for backup presentations.

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

> And one more thing: anyone with some suggestions for round
> table subjects?

I have another suggestion. It has become a tradition for
scripting languages to try and protect the sensibilities
of their users from the messy reality that numbers come in
different kinds, by using coercion. Many sorts of CPU, that
have on-chip floating point arithmetic, conspire to make
this deceit easy. But with ARM CPUs, and I suspect in many
embedded systems which Lua targets, the CPU only supports
integer arithmetic. Is it worth discussing how Lua could
support more than one sort of number? Is coercion really
such a boon?

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