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GOOPS obj representation & arithmetic (Re: Dump float support?)
- To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Subject: GOOPS obj representation & arithmetic (Re: Dump float support?)
- From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:43:30 +0100 (CET)
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
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- Reply-To: Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de
Mikael Djurfeldt writes:
> 4. Turn all standard Guile arithmetic, and comparison operators into
> <arithmetic-generic>s and break up numbers.c into independent
> modules.
>
> After this, we can easily add new types to the numeric tower. The new
> types will be handled a little bit slower than INUMs and REALs, but I
> think it will be fast enough.
>
Do these include arbitrary-precision reals as in the gpm lib?
Klaus Schilling