(unknown charset) Re: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox 1.6 final version? - Complex numbers

From: (unknown charset) [at]} <Robert>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:53 +0100

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Fyodor Tkachov wrote:

> "Excessive complexity = vulnerability" (C) Kalashnikov.
>
> Enough said.


There was a lot I was thinking of saying about Complex numbers, but
after the above contribution, which summarises my essay in 6 words,
I have changed my mind.


BUT for one related point.

(*If*) one chose to implement Complex as a RECORD type, and to
have Complex functions, one would need to allow PROCEDUREs to return RECORDs,
which Component Pascal does not support (but some Oberons do ?).

Is there a simple explanation why this restriction is a good (or bad) idea?


Cheers

Robert.

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