bignums, gmp, bytestring, .. ?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello John,

Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 4:52:09 AM, you wrote:

>> The simple problem with Haskell and Integer is that, according to the
>> Standard, Integer is a primitive: it is consequently implemented as  
>> part of the runtime system (RTS),

> there is no requirement that Integer be a primitive. a plain old
> implementation in haskell or via the FFI is certainly a valid one.

as a part of my Core library i've defined simplest implementation of
Integer for poor compilers:

newtype Integer = Integer Int

plusInteger = liftI2 plusInt
...

it's also possible to use [Int] here if some poor compilers will
really arrive





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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com