Operator overloading (and function overloading) helps but not enough. You have to be aware of the complex type *everywhere* you go and that's very annoying and error prone. I've been the works with C++, and later with Modelica. I am very happy that Python included *native* complex number support.
I really like Python's notion of having just one data type: the duck. "Anno Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:cs145l$8d6 <snip> > > Like this? > > use Math::Complex; > > my $z = sqrt( -1); > print 1 + $z, "\n"; # prints "1+i" > > Operator overloading makes it possible to work with complex numbers as if > they were a native data type. > > Anno > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
