complex numbers

[It's me]

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" <anno4000 at lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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>
> 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
>