[ENH] Complex

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Thu Jul 22 20:50:06 UTC 2004


These names are horrible:
	> > * an added method  #divideSecureBy: (required six divisions)
	> > * an added method #divideFastAndSecureBy: (requires only three 
	  (1 + 0 i) secureDivisionBy: <arg>

Why not #securelyDividedBy?  And why would anyone want insecure division
as a default?  Nobody who knows anything about complex division expects it
to be particularly fast; you can plan your way around that.  But you do
expect it to work when it can.




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