Re: [boost] Infinite precision integer draft

From: Joe Gottman (jgottman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-24 20:36:21

"Maarten Kronenburg" <M.Kronenburg_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:e5254e$tba$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> In the boost vault
> http://boost-consulting.com/vault/
> under Math - Numerics the document
> infintdraft.pdf contains the
> Proposal for an Infinite Precision Integer
> for Library Technical Report 2, Draft.

   There's a few members that I'd really like to see.

First, an operator unspecified_bool_type(), like the one found in 
shared_ptr.  There's a lot of code that looks like the following:

long x = doSomething();
if (x) { //whatever.

If integer is going to be a drop-in replacement for long then it should have 
this functionality.

Second, it would be very nice if we could have a two-parameter constructor 
for emulating scientific notation:

integer googol(1, 100);

I'm not sure how technically feasible this second one is, but it would 
certainly be useful.

Joe Gottman