Re: math.maxint (Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I have just been documenting some of my code, and was typing the
> sentence  "Numbers should be such that no precision is lost in
> addition, e.g. integers not too close to M" when I remembered this
> thread. Does nobody else miss math.maxint?

Next work release will have both math.mininteger and
math.maxinteger. (These constants will be defined in C,
too: LUA_MININTEGER/LUA_MAXINTEGER.)

-- Roberto