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In <225BC72BH00088B82H@p.froehlich.amc.cube.net>, p.froehlich@amc.cube.net (Peter Froehlich) writes:
>
>   Although  a  complex  type seems pleasing, I'm not yet convinced that it
>really  would  cause  a lot of algorithms to be converted to actually using
>COMPLEX  instead  of  REAL.   Please  give  me  an  example  algorithm that
>*seriously* benefits from a COMPLEX type.
>

What is missing in Oberon-2 is something like type-bound operators,
implemented similar to type-bound procedures.

E.g.:

PROCEDURE( COMPLEX ) "+" 
( VAR RVal1 : COMPLEX; 
  VAR RVal2 : COMPLEX
) : COMPLEX;
BEGIN
  ....
END "+";

Juergen Neuhoff