Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Doug Currie <doug.currie@gmail.com> wrote:

Wouldn't it be more logical, if exponentiation with negative
exponent would convert the base argument to float, similar to the
division case?

Lua 5.2.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

> =4^(-1)

0.25

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So it works as expected in 5.2 but not in 5.3. Seems like a bug. Even if intended, I don't like it for the potential to break existing code for no good reason.

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