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

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

I wrote in a previous message:
> Then I could just write my own version adaptable local function like:
>
>    -- Returns math.floor (a / b)
>    --
>    local function idiv (a, b)
>       if math.idiv then
>          return math.idiv (a, b)
>       else
>          return ifloor (a / b)          -- ifloor from above
>       end
>    end


Of course this is better written as:

  local idiv = math.idiv or function(a,b) return ifloor (a / b) end

[In general that's a pattern I tend to like to follow when writing
version-adaptable code using some new function NEW_FUN: define a local
version of NEW_FUN whose value is "NEW_FUN or function (...) ... end".]

-miles

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