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- Subject: Re: Integer division
- From: Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@...>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:21:15 +0200
On 14.11.2012, at 8.54, Petri Häkkinen 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 %%.
Oh, I think I got Dirk's idea the wrong way. I thought you were suggesting /% to be the modulo operator.
What I meant was: I would prefer separate operators // and %% (integer division and modulo) over /%. The reason: there are no combined operators +-, */, <> etc. either…. you get the idea ;-)
On 14.11.2012, at 15.37, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
>> May I ask what is the opinion of Roberto regarding these new operators?
>
> I think we always stated that the main problem with bitwise operators
> in Lua was that they do not have a "natural" interpretation over Lua
> numbers. If Lua gets integers, this problem is gone.
That's what I thought. Thanks!
Petri
