From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-08-04T07:32:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24731] Re: About An Imaginary Number Literal (Translation)

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:24730] About An Imaginary Number Literal (Translation)"
    on Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:56:27 +0900, ujihisa <ujihisa@gmail.com> writes:

|In [ruby-dev:38843] 複素数リテラルについて
|http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/38843 ,
|Matz suggested introducing an imaginary number literal to ruby. After
|his new patch is applied, we can use the following syntax:
|
|  2i
|  2.0i
|
|He also showed some issues about:
|
|* Backward compatibility
|* Is i OK? (In python it's j)
|* Is Numeric#i needed for imaginarization?
|* If it is needed, what's the value of (an imaginary number).i or (a
|complex number).i ?

Now I am thinking of adding Numeric#i, without adding literals.

							matz.