On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: : Today bacek++ implement complex logarithms in rakudo, and one of the : tests failed because it assumed the result to be on a different complex : plane. (log(-1i) returned 0- 1.5708i, while 0 + 3/2*1i was expected). : : Should we standardize on one complex plane (for example -pi <= $c.angle : < pi like Complex.angle does)? Or simply fix the test to be agnostic to : complex planes?
Standardizing on one complex plane is the normal solution, though this being Perl 6, there's probably a better solution using infinite Junctions if we can assume them to be both sufficiently lazy and sufficiently intelligent... :) Larry
