On 05/19/2012 06:05 AM, Siddhant Saraf wrote: > <sisar> r: my $x = 4 + 2i; $x.re = 5; > <p6eval> rakudo 45679a: OUTPUT«Cannot assign to a non-container in > block <anon> at /tmp/PeeJaa8bWJ:1» > > I think $x.re (Real part of $x) and $x.im (Imaginary part of $x) > should be allowed to be l-values. > What do you say?
No. Complex objects are value types and immutable. It's bad enough that we conflate the container/value distinction for substr-rw already, but we do it because it's quite useful. But for complex numbers, it's not so useful, because you can just create a new one quite easily: $x = 5 + $x.im*i; Cheers, Moritz