Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Extending big_int

[William D. N. <wne...@cs...>]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> I personaly never had the use for Bigints, so I might not the best to decide
> whatever extensions are needed or not. Does some other people here already
> felt frustrated with current Bigint API ?

Well, I rarely use it due to it's excessive verbosity (which could be 
helped by a separate Infixes module, a la mlgmp) as well as its lack of 
bitwise operations and features like to/from_string_base, where you can 
input/output big ints in formats other than decimal.

However, I'm more concerned with the fact that it's... well... broken 
<http://pauillac.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs/open?id=3586>.

William D. Neumann

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