From 6b2eca42719d414286e74ac2587be1fdbeb854de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Fourquet <fourquet.rafael@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:53:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] make `big` map ranges to ranges

---
 base/abstractarray.jl | 2 +-
 base/number.jl        | 3 ++-
 base/sysimg.jl        | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/abstractarray.jl b/base/abstractarray.jl
index cdfa0abe14e6c..4986d9c7f3ef6 100644
--- a/base/abstractarray.jl
+++ b/base/abstractarray.jl
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ for fn in _numeric_conversion_func_names
     end
 end
 
-for fn in (:float,:float16,:float32,:float64)
+for fn in (:float,:float16,:float32,:float64,:big)
     @eval begin
         $fn(r::FloatRange) = FloatRange($fn(r.start), $fn(r.step), r.len, $fn(r.divisor))
     end
diff --git a/base/number.jl b/base/number.jl
index 16de2c217f376..a0b641346e040 100644
--- a/base/number.jl
+++ b/base/number.jl
@@ -56,4 +56,5 @@ one{T<:Number}(::Type{T}) = oftype(T,1)
 const _numeric_conversion_func_names =
     (:int,:integer,:signed,:int8,:int16,:int32,:int64,:int128,
      :uint,:unsigned,:uint8,:uint16,:uint32,:uint64,:uint128,
-     :float,:float16,:float32,:float64)
+     :float,:float16,:float32,:float64,
+     :big)
diff --git a/base/sysimg.jl b/base/sysimg.jl
index c9b6694af79fc..3c69dbc01fea1 100644
--- a/base/sysimg.jl
+++ b/base/sysimg.jl
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ importall .MPFR
 big(n::Integer) = convert(BigInt,n)
 big(x::FloatingPoint) = convert(BigFloat,x)
 big(q::Rational) = big(num(q))//big(den(q))
-big(z::Complex) = complex(big(real(z)),big(imag(z)))
 
 # more hashing definitions
 include("hashing2.jl")