Re: Standard Libraries:

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo:

>> The list of useful types I've identified so far is pretty short:
>>  [...]
>>   - arbitary-precision integers
>
> See my lbc, http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lbc

But there's also Wim Couwenberg's LGMP.  If you try to combine two
code bases, each using one of them, then you'll run into problems.

>>   - perhaps decimal floating point numbers
>
> See Lua decNumber, http://luaforge.net/projects/ldecnumber/

It's based on IBM's library, so let's hope that there is less
variation.