Hi!
In most programming languages (and in Lua too) unary minus has higher priority than group of multiplicative operators ( * / % ).
It usually doesn't cause any problems due to "commutativity" between negation and any multiplicative operator in most programming languages:
(-a) * b == - (a*b)
(-a) / b == - (a/b)
(-a) % b == - (a % b)
As you can see, precedence of unary minus actually doesn't matter when only basic arithmetic operators are involved ( + - * / % ).
We can write (...-a%b) without worrying about precedence of binary / unary minus.
But Lua is special.
Lua has mathematically correct modulo operator (and that's great !).
The problem arises because in Lua negation operator is "not commutative" with modulo:
(-a) % b ~= - (a%b)
That's why in Lua we have an unpleasant surprise:
- a%m - b%n ~= - b%n - a%m
It's looks very weird.
That should be an equality as in all other programming languages.
I think it would be good to lower the priority of unary minus in Lua.
For example, unary minus may have the same priority as binary minus.
