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

[Stavros M. (Σ. Μ. <mac...@al...>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 2016-04-01, Stavros Macrakis <mac...@al...> wrote:
>
> > Tell me again, what would be the advantage of using Lisp complexes?
>
> Because it's there. <shrug>
> ​ ​
> Oh, also one has complex numbers which

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> don't require rectform to get the obvious result.
>

​Well, that's easily taken care of in a much simpler way!

You raise lots of interesting questions, for which I mostly don't have
> any answers. I'm just wondering why we would want to make it impossible
> to work with Lisp complex numbers; it seems an unm
> ​​
> athematical attitude.
>

I don't think mathematics says anything about how to use the features of a
programming language to build a new abstraction. If Maxima were written in
C, would you give users access to untyped pointers? (Hmm, scary to think
that you might...)
​


> But unless you or anybody actually arranges for Maxima to expel Lisp
> complex numbers, I don't have any actual opposition.
> ​
>

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>

best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
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