== Quote from Daniel Keep ([email protected])'s article > Sean Kelly wrote: > > Daniel Keep wrote: > >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>> Denis Koroskin wrote: > >>>> [snip] > >>>> > >>>> get/set/free? > >>> With these you can't move a resource inside the property. > >>> > >>> Andrei > >> > >> Python has an overload for removing properties. In all my years of > >> using Python, I've *NEVER* once had a use for it, or even worked out why > >> I'd want to use it. > >> > >> I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to do this, I just can't see the > >> need for move/remove for properties; where would this be useful? > > > > Does Python have complex value types? > > > > > > Sean > You mean these? > >>> (1+2j) * (2+3j) > (-4+7j) > Don't ask me why they used 'j' instead of 'i'. :P > If you mean aggregate types that have value semantics, then no. > -- Daniel
Using j instead of i is pretty common in electrical engineering circles. i means current when dealing with circuits, and complex numbers are used all over the place to make the math easier when doing circuit stuff, so by convention j is used instead of i to denote imaginary numbers.
