Re: [Chicken-users] u8vector to numbers bignum

[Michele La Monaca]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, the numbers random implementation is shitty, which is why I
> decided to omit it from my port to CHICKEN core (CHICKEN 5's random is
> still fixnum only).  Personally, I think it would be better if we simply
> got rid of all "random" support in core, because there's no way this is ever
> going to satisfy everyone.  Besides, the standard C library functions are
> deeply flawed, especially on some platforms like OS X.

I think that if you keep removing features from core, we will soon run
out of them. When I use “stock" random functions in any language I
don’t have high expectations, but for sure, I always expect a random
function to be readily available.

Regards,
Michele