Bill, If you extended this idea to rationals so that 3r1 displayed as 3r1 instead of 3 then you would have a way to distinguish rational and extended types from integers.
This could be done with floats as well, so that by including the decimal point and the right 0, you could immediately see that 1.0 was a float result and was different from the integer 1. Unicode and literal would still be a challenge to differentiate using text alone, but being able to clearly differentiate the numerical types through text display may be something to think about. Cheers, bob > On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:58 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you can take away the if(v->im) check, it then always displays > both real and imaginary parts. Not sure this should be done but > it looks harmless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
