Talk:Arbitrary-precision integers (included): Difference between revisions

:Hi Michael, I am trying to distinguish between the use of a library that is associated with the language versus one that is generic. It is a grey area because, for example, CPAN does ''wrap'' [http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp/manual/html_node/Language-Bindings.html GNU MP] which would make it fine as you would assume that the average Perl user would have no problem installing the CPAN module. But what of ''some other language with a generic interface to C/C++ that needs a generic download of the GNU MP source, compiled, then loaded with a generic inter-language call capability?'' I am trying to ''exclude this latter case'' as we already have an entry for calling other languages and I would like this task to not degenerate into showing how half the languages can link to GNU MP.

:Another grey area might be languages where the ''norm'' is to use libraries from a another language that it is very close to. All the .Net languages might use a standard Bignum implemented in C#; or JVM languages use the standard Java Bignum. In these cases, where the languages regularly and normally share 'standard' libraries, then I think they should go ahead and use it. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 09:14, 13 February 2010 (UTC)