Re: [q-lang-users] Complex numbers

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> unparse (comp_rect X Y) = '(X+Y*i);

And likewise "unparse (rat X Y) = '(X/Y)"?

> Of course this goes a long way to handle such simple things like complex 
> or rational numbers. But this feature could be useful for other data 
> types, too, in particular external types. What do you all think about 
> it? Is it "the right thing"?

Sounds excellent to me.  Of course, there would be the risk that
whatever the pretty-printer produced would not in fact parse
and evaluate to the same thing, but that's the price you pay
for sharp tools.

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