Some time ago there was a thread disucssing numeric ordering issues; the fact that ℂ lacks an ordering was part of that discussion.
A recent paper on arxiv proposes inflicting an ordering on ℂ using: ,----< excerpt from http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4906 > | | Given A = a₁ + i·a₂ and B = b₁ + i·b₂, then: | | A ≤ B if a₁ < b₁ || ( a₁ == b₁ && a₂ ≤ b₂ ) | A ≥ B if a₁ < b₁ || ( a₁ == b₁ && a₂ ≥ b₂ ) | `---- I wonder whether having such an ordering available would be beneficial for Perl, or for coding in general? -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
