Re: 5.2 work2 documentation for math.pow

["Liam Devine" <liamdevine@...>]

On 23/04/14 15:02, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 
> 2014-04-23 15:57 GMT+02:00 Liam Devine <liamdevine@oolua.org>:
>> The work documentation for math.pow still states [1]:
>> "Returns xy. (You can also use the expression x^y to compute this value.) "
>>
>> This is not always true and depends on the operands:
> 
>> lua53 -e"print(2^-1)"
>> lua53: (command line):1: integer exponentiation with negative exponent
>> stack traceback:
> 
> There was a thread on this, and it's not totally out of the question that
> 2^-1 will become legal again.
> 

Thanks Dirk. I do wish Rio Lua at least had a bug tracker. Rather than
looking in a mailing list, a mailing list which has become so noisy I
ignore most threads.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/108597

-- 
Liam

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