Hi all, I'm writing about PyOpenCL's support for complex numbers. As of right now, PyOpenCL's complex numbers are typedefs of float2 and double2, which makes complex+complex addition and real*complex addition match the desired semantics, but lots of other operators silently do the wrong thing, such as
- complex*complex - real+complex I've come to regard this as a major flaw, and I can't count the number of times I've had to hunt bugs related to this, and so I'd like to get rid of it. I've thought about ways of doing this in a backward-compatible manner, and they all strike me as flawed, and so I'd prefer to move to a simple struct (supporting both .real and .imag as well as the old .x and .y members) in one big change. If you have code depending on PyOpenCL's complex number support and are opposed to this change, please speak up now. I'll make the change in git today to give you a preview. What do you think? Andreas
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