Re: Trig functions

2010-09-17 Thread Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
gt; >So we Rakudo developers don't see much need for more trig methods in the >Complex PMC (I don't know if there is a need for real trig functions/methods, >but so far we've successfully worked around the lack of them). Of course they >don't hurt either. The Complex

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-17 Thread Moritz Lenz
s, if they aren't already. The existing operations are dynops. We would simply be adding additional ones. Note that all these trig functions are provided by the Complex PMC. Just as a data point from a language writer: Rakudo defines its own Complex type, because it was easier to get the disp

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
ions are dynops. We would simply be adding additional ones. Note that all these trig functions are provided by the Complex PMC. ~~ Paul ___ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
At 9/16/2010 06:40 PM, James E Keenan wrote: >>Should we provide any of these? If so, what about the ones that are complex >>over some range of arguments? > > >This issue has come up before, see, e.g., >http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/943. > >I think Allison's recommendation was: dynops. I

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread James E Keenan
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos wrote: Folks, We have a full compliment of trig, inverse trig, and hyperbolic operations, except for: acot coth acsc csch We are also missing the inverse hyperbolic operations: asinh acosh atanh acoth asech acsch Should we provide any of these? If so, what about the

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread Andrew Whitworth
I'm not against creating ops like this, but I would suggest instead creating them as dynops. In fact, I would be happy to see all the trig and hyperbolic trig ops moved to dynops, if they aren't already. --Andrew Whitworth On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Peter Lobsinger wrote: > -1 to adding

Re: Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Lobsinger
-1 to adding such features to core without any prior demand from users (none that I've heard anyways). On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Paul C. Anagnostopoulos wrote: > Folks, > > We have a full compliment of trig, inverse trig, and hyperbolic operations, > except for: > > acot > coth > acsc > cs

Trig functions

2010-09-16 Thread Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
Folks, We have a full compliment of trig, inverse trig, and hyperbolic operations, except for: acot coth acsc csch We are also missing the inverse hyperbolic operations: asinh acosh atanh acoth asech acsch Should we provide any of these? If so, what about the ones that are complex over some