On May 12, 12:49 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > On May 12, 8:27 am, rump...@web.de wrote: > > > > > > The language and library are missing arbitrary precision integer > > > > > arithmetic, using GMP or something like that. > > > > > True, but currently not a high priority for me. > > > > Too bad. That makes Nimrod officially "worthless", i.e., of no > > > value to me. > > > Well, you could write a wrapper for GMP (and contribute to the > > project ;-)). > > But such a thing already exists in Python. And I spend my time > USING arbitrary precision numbers to do math research. > > Just thought you'ld like to be aware that some people actually > make their language choices based on the availability (and > performance) > of arbitrary precision numbers.
I'm sure developers of a new language have to deal with much more pressing issues before accommodating each and every self important niche. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
