Re: [Chicken-users] Things I forgot [Was: the future of Chicken]

[Peter Keller]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Not really. It is all very ordinary. For example:
> 
>   int BN_add(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *b);
> 
> does exactly what you'd expect: adds a to b and puts the result in r,
> returning a 1 for success or a 0 for an error. (You could guess that
> from the function signature even without the man page.)

Oh, I don't mean the functions are wierdly layed out, I mean the library
distribution is wierdly layed out. I didn't even know to look in the
crypto/bn directory until you mentioned it. Is there some sort of manual
for this thing that explains what every single API call does into the
entire library and philosophy for use of the library?  That would be
most helpful. I can't man for something that I don't know exists. :)

> If you want, I'll happily do all the C hacking if you do the Chicken
> hacking -- I'm not really comfortable with the Chicken to C interfaces
> but I'm comfortable with the rest of this.

Thanks for the offer, but let me play a while before I figure out if I need
help or not. I  don't mind learning new things.

-pete