"It's me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precisely. One have to convert complex number into vectors, and vector > of > complex numbers into vector of vectors, list of complex numbers into list > of > vectors, ...., you get the idea.
No, one would have a class with all the appropriate special methods defined. This is what people did before complex was made built-in. The advantage of builtin-ness is being able to write complex literals: 1 + 1j, etc, instead of Complex(1,1). This and speed were two reasons to make complex numbers builtin. The new decimal type, in spite of being builtin (written in C), has the same 'problem' because decimal literals were alread being converted to binary floating point. Perhaps some day we might have 1.23d to indicate conversion to decimal instead. Or perhaps 1.23 will become a decimal and 1.23f a float. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
