Re: [Chicken-users] u8vector to numbers bignum

[Michele La Monaca]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:34:55PM +0200, Michele La Monaca wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Yeah, the numbers random implementation is shitty, which is why I
>> > decided to omit it from my port to CHICKEN core (CHICKEN 5's random is
>> > still fixnum only).  Personally, I think it would be better if we simply
>> > got rid of all "random" support in core, because there's no way this is 
>> > ever
>> > going to satisfy everyone.  Besides, the standard C library functions are
>> > deeply flawed, especially on some platforms like OS X.
>>
>> I think that if you keep removing features from core, we will soon run
>> out of them.
>
> That's silly rethoric, considering we are on the verge of merging in a
> huge new feature (full numeric tower) and have a lot more new things
> planned in the roadmap: http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-5-roadmap

Adding new (great!) features it's not a good reason to remove useful
one. Of course, my sentence was an exaggeration to stress the point
and give you heads-up.

Regards,
Michele