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On 09/07/2013 19.01, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
We are considering adding bitwise operations to Lua. After all, the main reason Lua did not have them was that they were awkward as primitive operations over floating-point numbers. With integer numbers, this problem is gone.
Do you mean a full set of operators like in C with direct support from the VM, or just a generic width-independent bit library using usual functional syntax?
If one would ensure portability of Lua code a mechanism should be provided for a Lua script to query the interpreter about the current int width, [...]try this:print(debug.numbits'i', debug.numbits'f')
sweet!Are you considering adding access to other compile-time constants through the debug library? I'm thinking of max stack size or max recursion depth (and similar), that may be useful at run-time to avoid triggering an error by incurring in an error by exceeding them.
-- Roberto
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