Re: Integer division

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I worry that integer multiplication might slow down some of my code,
> and there'd be a risk of unexpected precision overflows.

As integer will be a "visible" subtype, you can choose not to use
it. If you feed floating-point numbers to your computations, Lua will
perform them using floating-point arithmetic, just like today. The
main difference is that you have to think about how you want to handle
overflows.

-- Roberto