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: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 4:29 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] 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 > > L. >
