On 08/25/2011 03:23 AM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
Don refuses to implement it, because it always creates a new string. He wants
something like the DIP for writeFrom
99.9% of the times Don is right, but in this case he's wrong. You can't avoid
putting a necessary feature (a correctly working toString) just because it's
not efficient yet because of a not yet implemented language feature
(writeFrom). Making BigInt partially unusable just because Santa Claws isn't
here yet isn't an acceptable design decision for a respectable standard
library. Basic functionality comes before perceived (or imaginary) efficiency
issues.
I think until this is fixed, most effort that has gone into std.bigint
can be considered wasted, which is a pity.
I think that there's already a bug on the issue,<
Opened by me, I think.
I cannot seem to find it, but I'd like to vote on it. Do you have a link?
