Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> > > I don't know about others but writing larger numbers in exponential
> > > format like 1e3 is common in my code. For Lua 5.3, those are always
> > > floats. This has interesting consequences:
> > >
> > > for i = 1, 1e3 do
> > >   print(i) --> always int
> > > end
> > >
> > > for i = 1e3, 1, -1 do
> > >   print(i) --> always float
> > > end
> 
> Note that this corresponds to the usual arithmetic rules.
> 
> 
> 
> > > This is probably not a big deal since I could use 10^2 instead.
> > 
> > Oops, no I can't. Exponentiation always converts operands to float
> > too. I guess there's not a good shorthand for large integer constants?
> 
> 1000? :-)

  Easy for that case---no so easy for 2^48.

  Speaking of which, math.huge exists, but there is no corresponding
constant for the largest integer.

  -spc