On 27-Sep-06, at 7:41 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
This is why % and // seem out of place to me; integers
are not a
fundamental type in Lua, only numbers are. (Granted, %
is defined
for floating point numbers, but I have no idea what use
it has and
its primary use seems intended to be integers.)
It is sometimes useful to do integer arithemetic; a
useful subset of Lua numbers are integers. A number of
interesting algorithms involve integer arithmetic.
But as you say, % (and //) are well-defined for
non-integers, and they do have uses even if they haven't
been useful for you. (I have $1.38 in my pocket, and
apples cost $0.16 each. How many apples can I buy?)
