From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-02-05T05:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Native rational and complex number implementations?

Tobias Peters <tpeters@invalid.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
> 
> I know I could define a constant I and write
> 
> 2+3*I
> 
> but it's uglier. Also, Complex.to_s would then produce output valid for 
> ruby's parser to read.

This is prettier:

require 'complex'

class Numeric
  def i
    Complex(0,self)
  end
end

p 2+3.i

martin