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Jonathan Scott Duff
Date:
October 9, 2001 07:34
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
20011009093308.A13365@cbi.tamucc.edu
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Depending on what Larry's planning, we may weld in support for imaginary 
> numbers. While they're mind-warping, in some ways they're better than 
> having a line labeled "Beyond here be dragons" or something.

Neat. It'd be nice to have the "i" syntax as well: 3+2i

I can hear the crys now though "Oh no! First ``x'', then ``v'', now
``_'' and ``i''. Sheesh! When will it end?!?"  ;-)

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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