On 13 Apr 2002, Neil Jerram wrote: > Dirk> IMO, people should not use any of these functions at all. > Dirk> We should try to remove their use from other places within > Dirk> guile as well. The reason is, that these functions depend > Dirk> on the implementation of the bignums, which should be > Dirk> considered the secret knowledge of the number > Dirk> implementation. It is, btw., likely to change in the not > Dirk> too far future, if for example we manage the switch to the > Dirk> GNU mp library. [...] > If there are no valid reasons for using these functions, we should > change the messages to say that "this function was never intended to > be part of the libguile API". (And then the mailing list may later > produce a valid reason for us! :-)
IMO that's a good way to go. Best regards Dirk Herrmann _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile
