This is about Lua *with* the lnum patch (And I know, there's still no
difference)
This is all beside the point. The whole thing was brought to my
attention by the fact that string.format("%d", 1.00001) was ok while
string.format("%d", 0.999999) would give an error.
This what the sample Lua session in my first post tried to show.
Cheers /Flemming
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:43 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
Flemming Madsen <lua@themadsens.dk> writes:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Richard Hundt <richardhundt@gmail.com
> wrote:
Integers are defined as a subset of real numbers that are
*whole* (i.e which
can be written without a fractional or decimal component).
Numbers between
-1.0 < x < 1.0 therefore *cannot* be integers, so unless I've
misunderstood,
the existing behaviour was exactly what you wanted there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer
I already knew that, thanks.
The practical implication however is that -1.0 < x < 1.0 can not be
*cast* to integers. At least not by the %d operator of
string.format()
There is no difference between 0 and 0.0 for Lua.
--
David Kastrup
