Re: Feature suggest: Dozenal

[nobody <nobody+lua-list@...>]

On 2016-09-04 19:25, Maximum Of Enter ytb wrote:
> We should add a number prefix for dozenals in Lua, with floating point, 
> preferably. There are many places where you can find the advantages of dozenal, 
> especialy 0;4 instead of 0.3333333333333333333...
> As well as the ability to tostring dozenals to dozenal string representation.
> Example of dozenal notation:
> 0z0;4 for one third

Don't write 0.3333333333333333333..., write (1/3)!

Combinations of constants & operators are evaluated during code
generation (as far as possible).  That means writing 0.3333333333333333
results in exactly the same code as writing (1/3) - there's no extra
division at runtime.

The same holds for, say, 1.4142135623730951 and 2^0.5 or even 2^(1/2)
and so on and so on...

No need to manually calculate things & obscure intentions.