Hi Joe, the point made here is about the magnitude of complex numbers. The magnitude of one complex number can be compared to the magnitude of a second number.
Kind Regards On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Joe Groff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2017, at 6:22 AM, Björn Forster <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Joe, > I wanted to ask kindly if it would be possible that the core team adds to > the rationale the design decision behind > > associatedtype Magnitude : Equatable, ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral > > being not comparable. It was pointed out by several reviewers that it is > against all intuition that a scalar is not comparable and therefore pretty > much useless. > > It would be great if you could add the thoughts of the core team regarding > this to the rationale to document the reasons behind it. > > > Complex numbers have magnitude, but aren't comparable. > > -Joe > >
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