Re: [...] my rant on reductions...

[Jason Riedy <ejr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And r754@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
 -      The REAL solution is to provide them with the ability to take
 -      long products & sums & not worry about overflow or underflow.

No, the REAL solution is to use one of the zillion packages
out there that already solves this problem.  Some are listed
at
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnsoft.html

If you want to support these through reduction operations,
please provide examples where the reductions would make
some of these packages easier to read, debug, and modify.

Jason