feat: Add isReal and isZero, and fix specializing a generic type

src/complex/all.js

@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ export * as typeDefinition from './Complex.js'
 export * as arithmetic from './arithmetic.js'
 export * as relational from './relational.js'
 export * as type from './type.js'
+export * as utilities from './utils.js'

src/complex/utils.js

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import {Complex} from './Complex.js'
+import {match} from '#core/TypePatterns.js'
+import {ReturnsAs} from '#generic/helpers.js'
+
+export const isReal = match(Complex, (math, C) => {
+    const eq = math.equal.resolve([C.Component, C.Component])
+    const add = math.add.resolve([C.Component, C.Component])
+    return ReturnsAs(eq, z => eq(z.re, add(z.re, z.im)))
+})

src/core/Type.js

@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ export class Type extends Function {
       // let the proxy out of this function, never `this`.
       const rewired = new Proxy(this, {
          apply: (target, thisForCall, args) => {
-            const callThrough = thisForCall ?? target
-            if (callThrough.specialize) return callThrough.specialize(...args)
-            throw new TypeError(`Type ${callThrough} is not generic`)
+            if (target.specialize) return target.specialize(...args)
+            throw new TypeError(`Type ${target} is not generic`)
          },
          get: (target, prop, receiver) => {
             if (prop === 'isAproxy') return true

src/generic/__test__/utils.spec.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import assert from 'assert'
 import math from '#nanomath'
+import {NumberT} from '#number/NumberT.js'
 
 describe('generic utility functions', () => {
    it('tests whether an element is zero', () => {
@@ -9,5 +10,16 @@ describe('generic utility functions', () => {
       assert(isZero(false))
       assert(!isZero(true))
       assert(isZero(undefined))
+      assert(isZero(math.types.Complex(NumberT).zero))
+      assert(isZero(math.complex(-2e-16, 4e-17)))
+      assert(!isZero(math.complex(true)))
+   })
+   it('tests whether an element is real', () => {
+      const {isReal} = math
+      assert(isReal(Infinity))
+      assert(isReal(false))
+      assert(isReal(math.types.Complex(NumberT).one))
+      assert(isReal(math.complex(-3.25, 4e-16)))
+      assert(!isReal(math.complex(3, 4)))
    })
 })

src/generic/utils.js

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import {ReturnsAs} from './helpers.js'
 import {ResolutionError} from '#core/helpers.js'
-import {Passthru, match} from "#core/TypePatterns.js"
+import {Passthru, match} from '#core/TypePatterns.js'
+import {boolnum} from '#number/helpers.js'
 
+// Most types are real. Have to make sure to redefine on all non-real types
+export const isReal = match(Passthru, boolnum(() => true))
 export const isZero = match(Passthru, (math, [T]) => {
    if (!T) { // called with no arguments
       throw new ResolutionError('isZero() requires one argument')