From: John Harrison <jharriso@ra.abo.fi>
To: caml-list@margaux.inria.fr
Cc: John Harrison <jharriso@ra.abo.fi>
Subject: Bignums by default?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 21:33:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199604121833.VAA20694@tanichka.abo.fi> (raw)
I find the infinite-precision type "big_int" (a special case of "num") very
useful. So much so that I'd really like this, rather than machine
arithmetic, to be the default with the friendly syntax. For my applications
(in theorem proving), the small loss in speed doesn't matter, whereas the
arbitrary range is important.
Is there a reasonably straightforward way of setting up CAML Light so that
bignums are used by default?
Cheers,
John.
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