Re: Deprecated calls

[Eike Decker <zet23t@...>]

As a side note:
math.mod is already different from % :

> =-3%2
1
> =math.mod(-3,2)
-1
>

... when it comes to negative numbers it's behaving differently.


Eike

2010/2/7 Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net>:
> On 07/02/2010 11:45, Attila wrote:
>>
>> Functions table.foreach and table.foreachi are deprecated. You can use a
>> for loop with pairs or ipairs instead.
>> Since table.getn/maxn does (now rather did) the same job, they have been
>> also deprecated.
>
> Deprecated means: don't use them in new code. And: it might disappear in a
> future version.
>
> In Java API, you will find lot of methods that have been deprecated for
> years, but are still there to let run .jar files made for Java 1.1...
> Perhaps deprecated functions in Lua will disappear in next major version.
>
>> (but strange, math.mod disappeared, and
>> just fmod and modf are there...)
>
> If I am not mistaken, math.mod does the same thing than % but fmod and modf
> do slightly different things (eg. with negative numbers).
>
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