On Jan 15, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Saul Hazledine wrote: > It would help people like me understand the debate if some mainstream > examples of applications requiring (seamless) BigInteger support could > be identified.
I doubt that many will consider this "mainstream," but I evolve programs using genetic programming techniques and I've found that in this context BigIntegers can arise in all sorts of unexpected and weird and wonderful and sometimes adaptive ways. I still haven't figured out exactly what the 1.3 changes will mean for this work -- maybe it'll be fine or even better -- but I've liked not having to think about integer sizes much at all previously (as in Common Lisp, where the handling of complex numbers is also nice). -Lee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
