Re: Lua 5.3: functional version of // operator?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I think I'd prefer math.idiv...  oO;
>>
> Why not just check _VERSION, unless I'm missing a subtlety?

(1) doesn't work

(2) _VERSION checks are ugly/flaky anyway, I'd prefer feature checks
    where possible (e.g. the way it checks whether math.ifloor is nil
    or not)

Rena's version will "work" but it's gross...

-miles

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