Re: [q-lang-users] Re: Newbie questions and comments

[John C. <jc...@re...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> Well, I really need the bignums for doing some number-theoretic stuff. 
> Of course, you could reimplement them yourself using lists but this is 
> inconvenient and slow.

Yes, that would be a pain.

> I also thought about adding arbitrary precision floats, but if I take a 
> look at the bigint vs. float performance, that's probably not a good 
> idea. ;-)

Agreed.

> Hey, I just noticed that you are the current maintainer of figlet! Good 
> program. I've been playing around with it, to make a nicer sign-on 
> message for the Q interpreter. Maybe in the next version. :)

Thanks.  I am only the maintainer faute de mieux:  I haven't done a thing
with it for years, and indeed I never did learn how the basic rendering
engine works; I am only responsible for the Unicode wrapper.

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