On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> When you're dealing with numbers that represent real quantities, getting >> a complex result is nearly always an error condition. Better to get an >> exception at the point that occurs, than somewhere distant when the number >> gets fed to %f formatting, or worse, no error at all, just a silently >> generating garbage results. > > > Yeah. I don't think Inland Revenue would be very impressed if > I tried to tell them I had imaginary tax-to-pay, advantageous > though it might be for me.
Unless the IRS instructs you to submit the square root of your income, I doubt that this will ever come up. Amusing though the notion be. There really aren't that many situations where a program will be completely oblivious of complex/imaginary numbers and be able to encounter them... are there? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
