justinethier/cyclone

abs of complex number

lassik opened this issue · 3 comments

lassik commented

(abs -3-4i) => 3.0

Returns abs of the real part, discards the imaginary part.

jpellegrini commented

As @lassik said somewhere else, if you interpret R7RS as saying "abs" only applies to reals, it's not strictly wrong -- it would be an error, and in such situation the implementation may do anything it wants.
But it would be nice to return something useful, like the complex norm! 😁

justinethier commented

Thanks for the report! For now, Cyclone will return an error in this case.

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