Re: [q-lang-users] Complex numbers

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Errata:

> type Rat = private const rat P Q;

Of course that should read:

public type Rat = private const rat P Q;

> The application to complex.q and rational.q is obvious. But I'm also 
> considering equipping the standard container types with unparsing rules, 
> e.g., the result of dict [(1,2),(3,4)] would then actually be printed as 
> dict [(1,2),(3,4)]. Any objections?

That is, "dict [(1,2),(3,4)]" would be printed instead of "dict::bin 2 
(1,2) dict::nil (dict::bin 1 (3,4) dict::nil dict::nil)". Besides being 
prettier this also serves the purpose of information hiding. Of course 
this kind of custom pretty-printing must be disabled in the debugger.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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