[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Conversion

[Jim Fulton]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
(snip) 
> 
> It's currently a method: z.conjugate().  You could of course write
> 
>         def co(z): return z.conjugate()
> 
> but it would run much slower.  I am thinking to propose to make
> conjugate() a built-in function (it could return its argument
> unchanged for non-complex numbers).
> 
(snip)
> 
> I was asking for arg(z), which currently does not exist.
> 

I hate the idea of adding functions to builtins for one domain/type.

I'd much prefer a method, or a global function defined in a specialized 
module.

Jim

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