Re: Bug in Lua when using signed long

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

Having lua_pushinteger work with ptrdiff_t is convenient and it would be much less convenient if it took something considerably shorter. The "problem" is that there isn't a standard numeric type which means "an integer that fits exactly within a double".

I could see having versions of the APIs -- possibly in lauxlib -- which actually check things like pushed integers being in range, retrieved numbers actually being integers, etc..

Mark