Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On 02/28/2013 06:35 AM, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> > x={}
> > pi=math.pi
> > for k=pi,20 do x[k]=k end
> > print('{'..table.concat(x)..'}') --> {}
> > print('{'..table.concat(x,',',pi,pi+5)..'}') --> ERROR
>
> Very nice example!
> But anyway, I'm against adding "integer" data type to Lua. )))

Wait, that's no PI!

An idea for a project: replace the fp in Luas number for a pair of 
integers, a and b, representing the fraction a/b. Define operations 
accordingly, and modify the parser.

Jorge