http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2688

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 00:19 +0100, nicolas cellier wrote:
> Testing equality
>  aNumber = (aNumber + 0 i)
> will answer false...
> 
> Testing equality
>  (aNumber + 0 i) = aNumber
> will answer true...
> 
> (1 + 0 i) = 1.
> 1 = (1 + 0 i).
> 
> This is due to premature test
>  isNumber ifFalse [^false].
> 
> Obviously, Complex cannot answer true to isNumber because most senders of this 
> message will trust faithfully isKindOf: Number, and Complex is not in this 
> hierarchy.
> 
> The test should be some sort of
>  isArithmeticValue ifFalse: [^false]
> and Complex Quaternion and other arithmetic classes extending numbers should 
> answer true to isArithmeticValue.
> 
> This is another clue that VW ArithmeticValue superclass of Number make sense.
> And another clue that Complex (ComplexNumber please) are not much used.
> 
> 
> 
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