On Sunday, 15 April 2012 at 21:09:13 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad
wrote:
I absolutely do not think it does. There is nothing you can do
with a pure imaginary type that you cannot do with a complex
type. Furthermore, the imaginary numbers have the unfortunate
property of not being closed under multiplication and division,
which is troublesome for generic code:
ireal x;
x *= x; // boom
It seems nobody noticed, but I did in fact rewrite all of
std.complex two years ago (almost to the day) in preparation
for the deprecation of the built-in types. If there is
anything missing from the module, I will be happy to add it.
-Lars
The quote on the 'Semantics' section has a counter example...
http://dlang.org/cppcomplex.html
