Re: mpz_import

[Marius Vollmer]

Andreas Vögele <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer writes:
>
>> [...]  I was thinking whether we should export something like
>> mpz_import and mpz_export for our integers in general.  Such an
>> operation is obviously needed sometimes.
>
> I think that's a good idea.  I could, for example, use such wrappers
> to convert message digests into bigints. Currently, I use scm_ash and
> scm_sum in a loop to convert MD5 hashes into numbers.

Yes, that sounds the prototypical application.  Maybe you have a
concrete suggestion of how Guile should offer these functions (i.e.,
documented function prototypes)?  That would be great.