At 14:54 -0500 2009-12-17, Jon Lang wrote: >Dave Whipp wrote: >And really, my whole point is that the implementation details are >(conceptually) the only thing that distinguishes Complex::Polar from >Complex::Cartesian.
All though both e^(i ¼) and e^(i 3 ¼) evaluate to -1 + 0i it is often useful to be able to distinguish them. So perhaps the question is do we really want Perl6 to automatically convert e^(i 3 ¼) to e^(i ¼) internally. If not, then we really do want some sort of access to the implementation details. This is similar to the question for rational numbers if we really want Perl6 to automatically convert 4/8 to 1/2 and 51/68 to 3/4 internally So if you mean that we should have access to the implementation details to see if we have 4/8 rather than 1/2, then I'm with you. Regards, Todd Olson
