ref returns and properties

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Daniel Keep (daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com)'s article
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> > Daniel Keep wrote:
> >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
> >>>> [snip]
> >>>>
> >>>> get/set/free?
> >>> With these you can't move a resource inside the property.
> >>>
> >>> Andrei
> >>
> >> Python has an overload for removing properties.  In all my years of
> >> using Python, I've *NEVER* once had a use for it, or even worked out why
> >> I'd want to use it.
> >>
> >> I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to do this, I just can't see the
> >> need for move/remove for properties; where would this be useful?
> >
> > Does Python have complex value types?
> >
> >
> > Sean
> You mean these?
> >>> (1+2j) * (2+3j)
> (-4+7j)
> Don't ask me why they used 'j' instead of 'i'.  :P
> If you mean aggregate types that have value semantics, then no.
>   -- Daniel

Using j instead of i is pretty common in electrical engineering circles.  i means
current when dealing with circuits, and complex numbers are used all over the
place to make the math easier when doing circuit stuff, so by convention j is used
instead of i to denote imaginary numbers.