Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
The decision to dump the built-in complex and imaginary types in
favour of std.complex.Complex was made a long time ago, but nothing
has happened yet. So I have a few questions:
1. Is this still planned for D2?
Far as I know, yes.
2. In that case, when will it happen?
I don't know.
3. Are there any reasons why I shouldn't replace cxxx with Complex!xxx
in my code right away?
I think we'll have to provide aliases for the existing complex types, so
your code should continue functioning after the change.
The big difference is in assignments:
real a, b;
creal x = a + b*1.0i;
auto y = Complex!real(a, b);
// Also, this doesn't work with current complex types, because
// creal.re and creal.im aren't lvalues:
Complex!real z;
z.re = a;
z.im = b;
But it's not a problem, really. Since Complex!T is binary compatible
with the current complex types I can just insert a few casts here and
there. I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't have to go back to creal &
co later.
-Lars
