From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mikael Djurfeldt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: binary representation of numbers Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:53:18 +0100 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200302022036.11256.rd@alphalink.com.au> <200302032148.14019.rd@alphalink.com.au> Reply-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044431730 7351 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 07:55:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:55:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gKP1-0001uI-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:55:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKO4-0002X7-09 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKNi-0002WQ-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKNN-0002Pj-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:53:46 -0500 Original-Received: from kvast.blakulla.net ([213.212.20.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gKN6-0002Hi-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:53:28 -0500 Original-Received: from dyna224-225.nada.kth.se ([130.237.224.225] helo=linnaeus) by kvast.blakulla.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18gKMu-0001k8-00; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:53:16 +0100 Original-Received: from mdj by linnaeus with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18gKMx-0000Mi-00; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:53:19 +0100 Original-To: rd@alphalink.com.au In-Reply-To: <200302032148.14019.rd@alphalink.com.au> (Rohan Drape's message of "Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:24:27 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Original-cc: guile-user@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1599 Rohan Drape writes: >> My suspicion is that you can't do this in a reasonable way in >> Guile. From the C level it's easy enough to do it, but not on the >> Scheme level. Someone should implement these primitives for >> Guile. > > Since it appears there are no primitives to do this I have ported > the mzscheme procedures. The API definitions seem fine to me, and > the implementation is good with regards to size and type checks. That is great! > The intial guile version is packaged as a dynamically loaded module, > however I would like to submit this work for consideration for > inclusion in the guile distribution since it seems to me a useful > set of primitives*. Sounds like a good idea. > Is this list the correct place to submit contributions? Normally, contributed source goes to guile-source@gnu.org, but since you want to promote it for inclusion into guile-core, I'd say guile-devel@gnu.org is a good choice. Thanks, M _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user