Sounds great. Especially if the implementation of the sub-class is deferred until the first is completed.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Gilles Sadowski < gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > Hello. > > Coming back to this with a simple idea that may hopefully satisfy everyone. > > What do you think of having one class that performs all operations by > directly applying the computational formulae, without worrying about NaN > or infinities. This would be represent the complex field, would be simple > and most efficient for general use (not involving limiting cases), would be > documented as "producing undefined results in limiting cases" or "producing > the results expected from direct application of the formulae". The latter > would probably automatically keep track of all combinations of NaNs and > infinities (as seems to be the case in Octave). > > In a subclass of the above one, we would attempt to get a completely > consistent representation of the extended complex numbers (one point at > infinity). It would thus contain all the special handling of the limiting > cases of the current "Complex" class (plus all the missing ones and related > bug fixes). > > > Regards, > Gilles > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
