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Idiom #85 Check if integer addition will overflow

Write boolean function addingWillOverflow which takes two integers x, y and return true if (x+y) overflows.

An overflow may be above the max positive value, or below the min negative value.

local function intadding_will_overflow(x,y)
 return x>0
  and y>0 and x+y<x
  or y<0 and x+y>x
end

Integer operation won't overflow in lua 5.1 since integer are actually float.
math.maxinteger introduced in lua 5.2.
function Adding_Will_Overflow (X, Y : Integer) return Boolean is
begin
   return X > 0 and Y > 0 and X > Integer'Last - Y;
end Adding_Will_Overflow;

PROBLEM: this doesn't detect negative overflow.

New implementation...
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