Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-31 Thread Honza
2011/7/28 Bernd prof7...@googlemail.com: ¹ I depend on OpenSSL already anyways, so I thought why not make use of its bignum too when I need it. I hope you're aware of the FPC GMP bindings: http://wiki.freepascal.org/gmp The section http://wiki.freepascal.org/gmp#Extensions_bindings_.26_types

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-31 Thread Bernd
2011/7/31 Honza befelemepesev...@gmail.com: 2011/7/28 Bernd prof7...@googlemail.com: ¹ I depend on OpenSSL already anyways, so I thought why not make use of its bignum too when I need it. I hope you're aware of the FPC GMP bindings: http://wiki.freepascal.org/gmp It seems the author fought

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or whatever today's name for it) is integrated fairly deeply into the

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or whatever today's name for it) is integrated

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-29 Thread Sven Barth
Am 29.07.2011 12:11, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Sven Barth wrote: Am 28.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I wonder if I could ask a silly question here, without displaying too much ignorance. I generally understand the significance of an interface in the Windows context, where COM (or

Re: [fpc-pascal] operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bernd wrote: Hi, I am just trying to wrap (parts of) the OpenSSL¹ bignum library (large integer arithmetic) into something that makes using it look at least a little bit more elegant than using the naked procedural C API while at the same time trying to not overdo it and not create a heavy