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2017-02-23 2:45 GMT+02:00 Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com>:

> TIL that hex literals don't overflow into floats:

What is TIL supposed to mean in this context?

> Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> 0x7fffffffffffffff
> 9223372036854775807
>> 0x7ffffffffffffffff
> -1
>> 0x7fffffffffffffffff
> -1
>> 0x2222222222222222

It looks as if the last 16 hex digits are kept and the
rest ignored. Not a clever option for decimal.

> 0x333333333333330000000000000001
1

One could look at the Lua source to see whether it is a Lua
or a C feature.