Stef, One thing that must not happen is "automatic" use of complex numbers. Things like -1 sqrt should raise an error. If one wants a complex result, then -1 asComplex sqrt would be a nice choice. That way, one can choose whether or not complex numbers are viable - many times, they are not wanted. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse [stephane.ducasse@inria.fr] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 4:29 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr; lenglish5@cox.net Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] no Complex class in Pharo? On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Lawson English wrote:
Was this done just for streamlining, or are there known bugs in the implementation of Complex in Squeak?
no there were a lot of discussions three years ago about the fact that nobody used complex the implementation was not coherent Now I think that serge packaged it with its quaternium implementation. Stef
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