Scheme's influence on Lua (Was: Unexpected calculation result with Lua53

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-05-04 11:46 GMT+02:00 Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com>:

> Time for a quick Scheme REPL:
>
> ===============
> 11:38 $ gsi
> Gambit v4.7.5
>
>> (exact? 1)
> #t
>> (exact? 1.)
> #f
> ===============

Roberto wrote [1]:

| Semantically, Lua has many similarities with Scheme,
| even though these similarities are not immediately clear be-
| cause the two languages are syntactically very different. The
| influence of Scheme on Lua has gradually increased during
| Lua’s evolution: initially, Scheme was just a language in the
| background, but later it became increasingly important as
| a source of inspiration ...

We must not stop hoping for unbounded exact integers!

[1] www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf