Re: Wishful request for next version: '// 1' should produce integer

[Benjamin Riggs <riggs@...>]

I'm rather new to Lua (here because I'm embedding it in a hardware product), but I see that integers were introduced in Lua 5.3 (or omitted from the 5.2 manual) and, apparently with them, confusion about types. If someone has a link to a thread discussing the change, I'm curious to see the justifications for the added complexity.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 12:06 PM Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:01 AM Lorenzo Donati wrote:

"// 1" producing an integer goes
against the principle of least surprise

IMO, the least surprise here would be to treat // as a one-line comment  ;-)

After many years of programming in Pascal I failed to convince my brains that // might be an arithmetic operator.

People with a C background should feel the same :-)

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