[Python-Dev] return type of __complex__

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>>
>> (Complex
>> numbers get a free pass because "complex numbers with rational real
>> and imaginary parts" is not a memorable name for a type.)
>
> Complexional?

"Oh is there not one maiden here
Whose homely face and bad complexion
Have caused all hope to disappear
Of ever winning man's affection?"

I'm hoping your name was a joke, because it's rather unwieldy. But
really, computers are no different from anything else; they have to
represent numbers somehow. That pretty much means it has to be
rational, as it's awkward trying to do arithmetic with surds floating
around everywhere.

ChrisA