Re: Lua 5.3 work1 Considering math.isinteger or type()

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

David Demelier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As we have already discussed this, some of us on the lists think that
> math.isfloat is great but should also reflect the opposite as
> math.isinteger.
>
> Joseph Manning and I thought this idea great as you only need to
> remember there are math.is* to check the type. So you don't need to
> think which one of the function is available.
>
> This makes the library clear and adds a symmetry to the API.
>
> However Thijs Schreijer also thougth about the functione type() that
> should returns two values like this:
>
> type(10) ->  "number", "integer"
> type(10.0) ->  "number", "float"

What about math.type( 10 )   -> "integer"
           math.type( 10.0 ) -> "float"
           math.type( "foo" ) -> string
           etc...

Or just return nil for not numbers..

Ralph