Re: problem with string.format %d and very large integers

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> moreover it could change from version to version, so you 
> would have to rewrite the function for each new Lua release.

Given that new Lua versions are rare, this does not seem to be a real problem.

> it would very important to react _at runtime_ in a reliable way to the
> different implementations of the interpreter.

As stated in the manual, Lua numbers are double-precision floating-point
numbers. Different implementations of the interpreter are probably not
that common.