----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Leto" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Bob Kuo" <[email protected]>; "Sisyphus" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP
Howdy,
To my extreme enjoyment, I found out that someone has already taken
the burden of creating a full interface to the GMP integer functions
in the form of Math::GMPz [1]. There is also Math::GMPf and
Math::GMPq, in case you were wondering.
Thanks for the 'cc' Jonathan.
I should point out that the current handling of gmp_printf() in those
modules is a bit sub-standard. I haven't fixed it up because:
a) gmp_printf() is not so trivial to wrap;
b) I don't personally use it and it's not apparent to me that it's of great
use in a 'perl' situation;
c) no one has made any requests to improve it.
So - if you do access gmp_printf from one of those modules, approach it with
caution.
And if you'd like it fixed, let me know, and I'll attend to the matter. (In
fact, I'll attend to it anyway - just let me know if you're in a hurry.)
All of the other wrappings of the gmp functions ahould be in good order - of
course, if you find anything that's not "in good order", please let me know.
Cheers,
Rob
