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Re: Regarding Big Integers in C++

From: Aditya Prasad <asmarty2016_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 16:39:27 +0530
Thank you for the clarification.

On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 15:38, Gašper Ažman <gasper.azman_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Aditya,
>
> People aren't saying those things to be difficult, they are saying them
> because your library does not present an idiomatic c++ API. We generally
> expect strong typing where operators do sensible things so we can write
> code that doesn't look like LISP, but instead looks like arithmetic.
>
> Please learn the expectations of your target audience first, instead of
> just arguing. Some of our community has been with c++ from the start, which
> at this point is almost 40 years (before it was a standard). Some of us
> have been with C++ for "only" 15-20 years. C++ is a language with a
> particular feel, its own idioms, and conventions. Components that run
> counter to those don't interface with other parts correctly. For instance,
> how can I use standard algorithms with your big integer library?
> std::accumulate? std::partial_sum? std::sort? Would you think having to
> provide an explicit operation or comparator every time is a reasonable
> thing to ask every user of your library?
>
> G
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:01 AM Aditya Prasad via Std-Proposals <
> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I know that adding strings together appends them but my library does not
>> appends both the strings, it calculates the actual sum that needs to be
>> calculated in addition and in all arithmetic expressions. So, I would
>> request you to kindly read the document that I am attaching below.
>>
>> Follow this link for the code-
>> https://github.com/aditya1308/Big-Integers-CPP
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Received on 2021-05-25 06:09:42