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- Subject: Re: Integer division
- From: Marc Lepage <mlepage@...>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:00:22 -0500
On 2012-11-14, at 1:54 AM, Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14.11.2012, at 8.27, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>>
>> This definition screams for the symbol `/%`.
>>
>>> q, r = 42 /% 10 --> 4,2
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>
> Indeed. But /% looks like some sort of escape sequence, I would perhaps go with %%.
>
> A real integer type and adding //, would pave the way for bitwise operators <<, >>, | and &
> (don't know what to do about ^ because it's already in use). This would make Lua a better fit for those applications that rely on bit crunching operations.
>
> May I ask what is the opinion of Roberto regarding these new operators?
>
> Alternatively, if new operators are generally frowned upon, then maybe the new integer operations should be made into functions math.idiv and math.imod?
>
> Petri
>
>
I support bit operations and div/mod.
// reminds me of comments.
