Promoting to Complex
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
paul at windfall.com
Sun Sep 26 17:58:13 UTC 2010
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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