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2012/11/13 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/11/13 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Recently I was thinking about how you might add a 64-bit integer type to Lua.
>>
>> This is only a pressing question if you need IEEE floats and 64-bit integers
>> in the same program, otherwise you can build Lua with 64-bit integers
>> as your `number`.
>>
>
> True, but I really prefer to leave recompiling Lua as a last resort.

How do you envisage accommodating new types without patching
and recompiling Lua?