I like Brad's > About the only change I would even consider is to add: > constant term:<-i> = Complex.new(0,-1);
and opened https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/2986 -y -y On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:52 AM Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > About the only change I would even consider is to add: > > constant term:<-i> = Complex.new(0,-1); > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:27 AM Timo Paulssen <t...@wakelift.de> wrote: > > > > That sounds like a recipe for even more confusion further down the road; > > now whether you get a -0-i or a 0-i out of your bag depends on which one > > of the two was put in first, and the difference between 0 and -0 surely > > makes a difference in enough cases when doing floating point math that > > it would come up at just the right time to ruin your day :( > > > > On 14/06/2019 00:28, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > We could potentially give 0e0 and -0e0 the same .WHICH, which would > solve the bag issue. > > > > > >> On 13 Jun 2019, at 21:02, Timo Paulssen <t...@wakelift.de> wrote: > > >> > > >> Unfortunately, that's what the IEEE prescribes, so all we can really > do is: *shrug* > > >> > > >> On 13/06/2019 21:01, Sean McAfee wrote: > > >>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:12 AM Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >>> > (-i).reals > > >>> (-0 -1) > > >>> > > >>> Ah, so it's nothing particular to Complex: > > >>> > > >>>> bag 0e0, -0e0 > > >>> bag(-0, 0) > > >>> > > >>> Can't say I'm thrilled to have two distinct zeroes. > > >>> >
