Trey Harris wrote: > In a message dated Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Moritz Lenz writes: >> I assume that 'Num' is meant to be a non-complex. >> Then it seems to make sense to assume: >> Int is Rat >> Rat is Num >> Num is Complex >> or am I off again? > > S29 seems to have been assuming this, if I'm reading the multis correctly.
If it assumed that, why would exp() be defined in class Num, instead of the more general class Complex? It would also imply that the method polar, which is defined in Complex, is available for all other numbers. Don't know if that's intended. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/