Kindly comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong
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You're right -- the generalization works.
Mainly what I don't like about it is that \sigma(z) no longer has the nice properties it had over the integers: for example, it's no longer multiplicative. This doesn't stop Gaussian integers from being friendly, though, and the rest is a matter of aesthetics.