On 28/10/2014 4:20 AM, John McKown wrote:
This is likely a silly question. Does lua4z use HFP (zArch) or BFP (IEEE)
floating point? If I had to guess, I'd _guess_ HFP.
You guessed wrong :). Lua numbers are double precision IEEE BFP. This
did cause some problems. For example, the DB2 ODBC driver only supports
HFP so I had to do manual
conversions in LuaSQL.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:38 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lua is a powerful, fast scripting language with vibrant user communities
on many platforms. Lua celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
From the Lua website (http://www.lua.org/about.html):
Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as
fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several
benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of
interpreted scripting languages.
Lua4z is a binary distribution of Lua for z/OS, with "batteries" (a
collection of extension libraries).
Lua4z runs in MVS batch, TSO batch and foreground, and z/OS UNIX.
Lua4z includes support for:
* All I/O access methods, including BSAM, QSAM, VSAM, z/OS UNIX, and
hiperspaces. Supports data sets with spanned records.
* XML
* JSON
* Web programming (Lua4z includes a full web programming stack:
sockets, I/O scheduler, HTTP client/server, SMTP, FTP, MVC framework)
* Multithreading (cooperative and preemptive)
* Regular expressions
* ISPF
* SQL database access (DB2, SQLite)
* Object-oriented programming
* Functional programming
Lua4z is available at no charge. Download it now from:
http://lua4z.com
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