Trig functions

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

At 9/17/2010 04:08 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:

>Just as a data point from a language writer: Rakudo defines its own Complex type, because it was easier to get the dispatch right that way. Only a few otherwise costly functions are privately re-dispatched to parrot's Complex PMC.
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>So we Rakudo developers don't see much need for more trig methods in the Complex PMC (I don't know if there is a need for real trig functions/methods, but so far we've successfully worked around the lack of them). Of course they don't hurt either.

The Complex PMC supports the full set of trig functions. The question is whether to add support for these additional ones in the native Number and the Float PMC.

~~ Paul


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