Re^3: What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like?

in reply to Re^2: What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like?
in thread What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like?

Complex numbers are special cased, in that they are explicitly specced. While numerics aren't a weak spot in Perl 6, they aren't exactly the most powerful area either (Larry keeps telling us on #perl6 that he doesn't do higher mathematics ;-)

But it's quite easy to define your own data types and the associated operations:

# suppose you inherit from List to implement your vector:
class MyVector is List {
    sub infix:<+>(MyVector @self, MyVector @other) is export {
         return @self ť+Ť @other;
    }
    # adding a scalar:
    sub infix:<+>(MyVector @self, Num $other) is export {
        return @self ť+ $other
    }
}
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No more hassle of overloading literal constants in the source, since multi method dispatch takes care of it all.

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