RE: [gawk-devel] MPFR thoughts

[Carl Friedberg]

Thank you. I agree with the removal of MPFR support. I am not in any way an 
AWK/GAWK developer, nor do I have the skills needed.

We owe Arnold Andy, and all the others who have supported AWK over the 
generations a huge thank you

Carl Friedberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: gawk-devel <gawk-devel-bounces+friedberg=comets.com@gnu.org> On Behalf Of 
Manuel Collado
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:31 AM
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>; arnold@skeeve.com; 
gawk-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gawk-devel] MPFR thoughts

El 04/05/2022 a las 21:36, Eli Zaretskii escribió:
> ...
> Gawk is a general-purpose language,

Please let me respectfully disagree. IMHO gawk is a kind of domain-specific 
language. Focused of processing textual representation of data, i.e. strings. 
Of course some numeric computation capability is needed, but only to some 
extension.

> and as such, it isn't outlandish
> for Gawk to provide extended-precision arithmetics.

Not being the main purpose of gawk, this capability can be provided as an 
extension, as already said. No need to be integrated in the gawk core.

Just my 2c. Kind regards.
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