From: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mpz_import
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:19:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lj3c2ehu0o.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77888DE4-F4FF-11D8-9F1C-000D93673682@gmx.net> (Andreas Vögele's message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:25:06 +0200")
Andreas Vögele <voegelas@gmx.net> writes:
> Marius Vollmer writes:
>
>> [...] I was thinking whether we should export something like
>> mpz_import and mpz_export for our integers in general. Such an
>> operation is obviously needed sometimes.
>
> I think that's a good idea. I could, for example, use such wrappers
> to convert message digests into bigints. Currently, I use scm_ash and
> scm_sum in a loop to convert MD5 hashes into numbers.
Yes, that sounds the prototypical application. Maybe you have a
concrete suggestion of how Guile should offer these functions (i.e.,
documented function prototypes)? That would be great.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 0:59 scm_from_ipv6 Kevin Ryde
2004-08-23 10:27 ` scm_from_ipv6 Marius Vollmer
2004-08-23 12:25 ` mpz_import (was: scm_from_ipv6) Andreas Vögele
2004-08-23 13:19 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-08-29 15:33 ` mpz_import Andreas Vögele
2004-08-31 7:47 ` mpz_import Andreas Vögele
2004-09-20 23:21 ` mpz_import Marius Vollmer
2004-09-21 0:28 ` mpz_import Marius Vollmer
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