Promoting to Complex

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Folks,

Should PMC functions with partial complex ranges promote their result to a Complex? For example, should sqrt(negative Float) produce a Complex? This issue does not pertain to native numbers, since we never promote them to PMCs.

There is precedence for doing this. For example, Integer promotes to BigInt when necessary. 

~~ Paul

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