Re: [5.4] The string metatable and arbitrary-precision arithmetic

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

2018-06-26 16:30 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>> If backward compatibility of coercion arithmetic is not desired, these
>> metamethods could be replaed to give arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
>
> Very nice! You've reminded me that lbc does not handle __idiv. I'll
> fix that soon.
>
> However, you probably want
>
>     for k,v in pairs(meta) do
>
> instead of
>
>     for k,v in pairs(bc) do
>
> Otherwise, you'll put a lot of garbage in the string metatable.

Yes, that is the right way round.