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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> May be possible reason is that a complex number is seen a composite
> type, and how would one fix the type of its two component ? Float ?
> Fixed ? Both the same ? Different ? And so on. Unless with a special
> ugly/heavy syntax, difficult to image a way to simply declare a
> complex type in Ada (unless you do it the C way : one type for all
> use, without constraints, and no other choices).

ARM Annex G? http://www.adaic.com/standards/05rm/html/RM-G-1.html

I'm not a mathematician (as a physicist) but I can't imagine why you
would want the two components of a complex number to have different base
types.