On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:18:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Good question. The size of the bignum, if it's been declared to have > a maximum size, or the maximum size that it's been, though that > doesn't feel particularly right.
That feels particularly bad if language implementations happen to re-use temporary PMCs. (As perl re-uses temporary SVs in a subroutine's pad) As what you get may depend on a previous caller's values. I can't really see how you can rotate a bignum that doesn't have a width already associated with it. Nicholas Clark