From dave.whipp@gmail.com

(this is really a perl6 spec (S32) bug, not specifically rakudo ...
but rakudo is what I'm playing with)

I was looking at colomon's Vector.pm in github, and noticed that
Vector​::length is defined as { sqrt( self dot self ) }. This is
obviously incorrect for complex numbers​: it should be { sqrt( self dot
conjugate self ) } (for some syntax of "conjugate")

I can't just add the method to the Complex class, because then the
Vector code would fail ("method not found") for all non-complex
numeric types (for which conjugation is an identity operation).

From @coke

Since this is a spec ticket, I've rejected it here, and opened it in the spec queue as​:

Raku/old-design-docs#33

On Tue Jul 20 10​:26​:57 2010, dave.whipp@​gmail.com wrote​:

(this is really a perl6 spec (S32) bug, not specifically rakudo ...
but rakudo is what I'm playing with)

I was looking at colomon's Vector.pm in github, and noticed that
Vector​::length is defined as { sqrt( self dot self ) }. This is
obviously incorrect for complex numbers​: it should be { sqrt( self dot
conjugate self ) } (for some syntax of "conjugate")

I can't just add the method to the Complex class, because then the
Vector code would fail ("method not found") for all non-complex
numeric types (for which conjugation is an identity operation).

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@coke - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'