Re: Extending Lua for multiple light userdata types

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

The ÷ symbol would be nice... but it is not a common keyboard symbol, at least looking at the keyboard layouts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International then given that character, since it's not in ASCII, you'd have to worry about encoding/etc.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

On 11/14/2012 2:29 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

maybe ":" as single token, in NL kids at schools start with
(positive) integers and the : is used as division symbol learn
division (but anyway, // looks visually ok too)

":" is already taken in Lua. A "÷" would be perfect, though :)

ah, I like that one

(but // and %% looks nice too)

Hans

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