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I've started implementing arbitrary-precision unsigned integers in Lua. To be incorporated into the visual-functional language I'm building.
Why: I want ints to behave as if they were defined as either 1 or n+1. Real-world performance concerns mean I can't actually implement them that way, but I want to Alonzo to suggest its ints could be implemented that way & behave as if they were.
In practice a 64bit machine should rarely if ever need my bigint code, native ints give plenty of range!
1/2!
@alcinnz
This made me realise that built in large integers mostly appear in languages with a "don't sweat the low level details" attitude like Lisp and Smalltalk.
Never thought of it that way before.
On that note, if I may nerdsnipe someone into tangentially helping Alonzo...
Anyone keen to implement CRDTs in Lua? Or write language bindings to AutoMerge?
How can I ensure any Unicode text renders in Love2D, regardless of charset?
Or how about implementing a Love2D control for entering any Unicode codepoint? Such as emojis or maths symbols?
1.5/1.5 Fin for today!
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