On Nov 23, 2:37 pm, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23 Nov., 13:29, Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just noticed there is no support for complex numbers in Clojure. > > There are a few posts on the issue here, but no rationale. I'm a > > mathematician, and complex numbers pop up all over the place. CL and > > Scheme have always had native support for them. I took it for granted > > they were there until I needed them recently. > > I think the reason is, that Java still does not have them in its > standard lib. It puzzles my why they didn’t come up with > something in the past 13 years. > If you want them you will have to use some lib for that.
Yes, I see, but the JVM hasn't got native support for rational numbers either, and yet we do have them in Clojure thanks to the Ratio class Rich created. I can't see why something analogous can't be done for complex numbers as well. We even have unbound integers! And you don't have them in Java natively. Maybe, for the time being, some Complex class like the ones found in Apache.Commons or in JScience could be incorporated into Clojure, so that we have a common basis to work on, and there would be compatibility among different people's code (somthing important I believe). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
