PDL::C...erloads(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

PDL::Complex::Overloads — it's a subclass of Math::Complex that comes with overload fallbacks 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

require PDL::Complex::Overloads;
my $same = PDL::Complex::Overloads::cplx(1, 2) eq '1+2i';

okay so yes bestie, that eq is doing exactly what you think it's doing 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this class is lowkey a one-trick pony and it's not even shy about it — the entire point of its existence is to hand you Math::Complex's overloads, but with "fallback" set to true. That's it. That's the whole job 🎀

And why, you ask? Mainly so you can do string-comparison, because backwards compatibility said "not me abandoning my old code era" and honestly? valid 😭

no cap: if you're here for brand-new fancy behaviour, this is not that. It's giving "fallback: true, and nothing else", and that's iconic of it 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ed J — the actual main character who wrote this ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Math::Complex — the parent, the blueprint, the whole reason this subclass gets to exist 🌈

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perl v5.42.3 · 2026-08-20 · straight out of User Contributed Perl Documentation, and yeah the page title got squished down to PDL::C...erloads(3pm) because even the manpage header couldn't handle the full name's main character energy 💀

anyway bestie that's the whole page, go forth and compare your complex numbers as strings fr fr 🌸💖