Re: [EPIC] Request for comments: New math parser default in epic5

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Weiss
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:00:07AM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote: The new math parser was first written about 7 years ago and hasn't had any significant changes for 2 years, despite rather signficant use by several scripts. So it's stable. It hasn't been turned on by default because it's not

Re: [EPIC] Request for comments: New math parser default in epic5

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Kratter
I have had the new math parser enabled in two of my scripts for quite a while now, and I have not had a single user complain about any sudden bugs. My vote is to enable it by default. On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:00:07AM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote: The new math parser was first written about 7

Re: [EPIC] Request for comments: New math parser default in epic5

2005-04-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Purely out of curiousity: is this new parser libgmp? If not, have you considered using libgmp? Hell, I don't even know what libgmp really does, other than act as some IEEE-oriented math library... ;-) Food for thought. And I hate math, by the way. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: [EPIC] Request for comments: New math parser default in epic5

2005-04-21 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 07:21 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Purely out of curiousity: is this new parser libgmp? If not, have you considered using libgmp? Hell, I don't even know what libgmp really does, other than act as some IEEE-oriented math library... ;-) libgmp does math, not math