Here is a first commit of Squeak/trunk Complex into a separate
Math-Complex package.
This is useful for Pharo users at least.

No rename, no refactoring (but methods #asComplex and
#adaptToComplex:andSend: moved to Number) , just the Squeak version.

Nicolas

2011/10/12 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all for your answers.
>> Too many words for a single post, so I compiled a few comments and
>> Complex implementation reflections in this blog entry:
>> http://smallissimo.blogspot.com/2011/10/about-complex-in-squeak.html
>>
>> I'm not satisfied with current status because we are mixing two paradigms.
>>
>> Note that putting Complex outside the image is also an easy solution
>> for playing with paradigms without causing undesired side effects to
>> Complex-unaware-Applications.
>> But maybe it's too easy to divert like this, and we should better
>> think harder ;)
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>
> Thanks! Good analysis, hard decision.
>
> In any case, I don't think it is needed to have Complex as an external
> package just for the automatic conversion issue. It is enough to have a
> preference.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>> 2011/10/11 Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> extra fact:
>>>>>> - Complex is absent from Cuis
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not for long :) . I have already integrated it and will be in next Cuis
>>>>> release. I think Complex belongs in the base system.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh, forgot to say. I also think that
>>>>  -1 sqrt = 1i
>>>> should be true, and I'm working on it (together with some other tweaks
>>>> to
>>>> #sqrt and friends I'll publish when finished).
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1. I was just about to comment on that one :)
>>> It always bothered me that "-1 sqrt" wouldn't answer "1i". It seems like
>>> an
>>> incomplete implementation, being that we have the class Complex.
>>> At the time I "fixed" it by just relying on the fact that the sqrt
>>> primitive
>>> fails when the receiver is negative, but that solution seems very
>>> hackish. I
>>> wonder what your solution looks like? :)
>>> Cheers,
>>> Richo
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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