Re: [Maxima-discuss] Use Lisp complex numbers in Maxima?

[Stavros M. (Σ. Μ. <mac...@al...>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:

> >>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <(Σταῦρος Μακράκης)" <
> mac...@al...>> writes:
>
>     Stavros> o You might think it makes Maxima simpler to have all numbers
> be Lisp
>     Stavros> numbers, but that isn't going to happen by itself. We will
> need to continue
>     Stavros> to support bigfloats, and bigfloat complexes (and in the
> future perhaps
>     Stavros> other composite numeric types like intervals). Of course,
> these could be
>     Stavros> packaged up as CLOS objects, but again, I don't see that
> anyone has done
>     Stavros> that work, either.
>
> Bigfloats and complex bigfloat are already packaged up in CLOS
> objects.  See the bigfloat package in src/numeric.lisp.  But that's
> not really exposed in anyway to maxima; it's all for internal
> processing.
>

​OK, I should have been clearer: the packaging is the easy part. The hard
part is making the CLOS objects work correctly in the rest of Maxima.​