Stylistic Preferences

From: "Paul Griffioen" <I@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:14:02 +0100

On Lisp Programming Style at http://www.lisp.org/table/style.htm I read:

"Use complex numbers to represent points in a plane."

This sounds like something Dijkstra would not approve :) Any explanation why
this is prefered?

Paul Griffioen

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