Re: [Chicken-users] Bignums in core

[Kon Lovett]

Hi,

Personally I want a core Chicken with a component orientation towards  
the major sub-systems. I mean "pluggable & composable" string, number,  
gc, concurrency, file components; not to be construed as an exhaustive  
list.

I see Chicken at an architectural cross-roads. Rather than pilling  
capability into the core perhaps we should consider something that  
qualifies as "it's all chickens down."

Best Wishes,
Kon

P.S.

People may notice that a perfectly good regular expression system was  
swapped for another. The motivation was not the "push it off the  
table" capability of Alex's irregex compared with PCRE but the desire  
to rid the core of an external dependency.

(DO NOT read this as a criticism of irregex. I like the sexp regexp  
formula. Only a cautionary tale.)