Re: Why no Complex Arithmetic ?

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From: Andrew D. Hapugin
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:10

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Hello!

Richard Pitre wrote:
> 
> 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

As far as we (here in xTech) know Oakwood Guidelines propose to 
implement complex arithmetics and we have implemented it in XDS.

Regards,
Andrew Khapugin (hady@iis.nsk.su),
xTech Ltd.

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