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PS: This somehow is "lucky and astonishing accident" that -- can be
kept out so easily ... .

Somehow maybe a "sign of destiny :)". (for ** and/or // such a
"comearound trick" would be impossible as I see it).

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 8:03 AM Flyer31 Test <flyer31@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I like the big int operator idea. It’ll be far better to lose the comment introducer in some case. Just use the multi line comment —[
>
> Thank you for support, but I really would NOT recommend to sacrifice
> the -- line comment  for this.
>
> As I stated in my post yesterday, I am quite convinced that these
> operators ++, **, // will be only used by about 1% of Lua programmers,
> and only by specialists,
>
> And for such people the workaround a ++ -b instead of a -- b should be
> quite straightforward - no big problem.