Update guidance concerning mixing arrays with Python scalars to handle complex
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This PR
booland real-valued data types. This PR updates the guidance to accommodate mixing acomplexPython scalar with arrays. Guidance is intentionally limited to when a scalar iscomplexand an array has a complex floating-point array data type.complexand an array has a real-valued array data type. Behavior is left implementation-specific (e.g., promotion, exception, etc). Given that current guidance requires converting a scalar to the array data type, to accommodatecomplexscalars and real-valued arrays, we'd need to specify casting rules forcomplexto real, which is something the specification has thus far avoided (e.g.,astype,real,imag,conj, et al). This PR aims to be consistent with those prior decisions.