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Why no Complex Arithmetic ?

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From: Richard Pitre
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:44
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Why leave out complex numbers and complex
transcendental functions? Maybe Oberon is slightly simpler without this
but any programs that use complex arithmetic are automatically more complicated
and less efficient without language support.
I see no good argument for leaving complex arithmetic out of Oberon
if you've already gone to the trouble to include  floating point numbers. 
Why alienate so many people who desparately need good tools like this? 
If you don't think its a problem then its because you've never tried
to do it. The readability goes to hell. 

richard
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From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
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Subject: Why no Complex Arithmetic ?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 22:44:04 GMT
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