Haskell

[Timon Gehr]

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?