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I'd love to be proven wrong, but all Lua lets you do is typedef to another built-in type. Swapping in something like Python's long type would not be a simple m

I'd love to be proven wrong, but all Lua lets you do is typedef to another built-in type. Swapping in something like Python's long type would not be a simple matter.

dottrap 12y ago
I think you would probably want to do it as a userdata and not as a language mod. Roberto addressed the idea of a infinite number type, but it has a lot of downsides which are very un-Lua like, i.e. complicated, slow (no real hardware), and interoperability problems with the C API (which is very important to Lua). video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqNK1jA77M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqNK1jA77M slides: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/talks/ws2014.pdf http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/talks/ws2014.pdf
- justincormack 12y ago
  Ah yes the C interface would be a problem.