On Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 22:59:44 UTC, Damian McGuckin wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 05:43:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 7/7/26 7:51 PM, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> Is there any background documentation by Walter when he
implemented them?
This came full circle. :)
We need to go back to the fundamentals. I think Walter's
original concepts are very sound as they are much closer to the
ideas of Kahan and Thomas on the need for complex and imaginary
types in C.
Given a
cdouble c;
how does one extract the real and imaginary parts in D?
There used to be a digitalmars.com article on the rationale
for the complex types being a part of the language. I can't
find that original article but I have my translation of it to
Turkish likely from 2009:
https://ddili.org/tanitim/fark_karmasik.html
That was useful although some of the automatic translation was
... well ... interesting
The original article can still be read on the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051210051850/http://www.digitalmars.com/d/cppcomplex.html
