There is currently the bigint.nr library in the standard library suite, which is an implementation of fixed modulo integers sized to a set of elliptic curves (e.g. BN254, secp256k1).
This has been confusing to Noir developers, who often misinterpret it as an arbitrarily-sized large integer type given how that the term "BigInt" is more commonly understood in other programming languages:
Problem
There is currently the
bigint.nrlibrary in the standard library suite, which is an implementation of fixed modulo integers sized to a set of elliptic curves (e.g. BN254, secp256k1).The library is also documented as "Big Integers" here: https://noir-lang.org/docs/noir/standard_library/bigint/
This has been confusing to Noir developers, who often misinterpret it as an arbitrarily-sized large integer type given how that the term "BigInt" is more commonly understood in other programming languages:
Happy Case
The library and the corresponding documentation should be renamed to something less confusing per general software development intuitions.
I am suggesting
altfieldbut not necessarily feeling strongly about it, open to suggestions.Project Impact
Nice-to-have
Impact Context
The confusing name have been inducing additional education and ecosystem frictions.
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