9 Oct
2008
9 Oct
'08
2:33 a.m.
How about unbounded_int? It fits nicely with the is_bounded in numeric_limits.
So are you proposing two names:
bounded_int - arbitrary but fixed (maximum?) size integer
unbounded_int - grows to accommodate a size (bounded only by machine memory).
My plan was to call a fixed precision integer fp_int. I think it's a good idea to keep the name short for such a basic arithmetic type. I can make it clearer in the introduction that mp_int stands for multiple precision integer which grows dynamically in size / has unbounded precision. I really like the name mp_int, I would accept ap_int though.