_Complex and _Imaginary datatypes

[Andrew Pinski]

I just want to voice my opinion now since no one has mentioned Fortran 
yet.

I would say C is evolving past what C++ is and more into Fortran.
Fortran includes complex types so if people want to use C has a good 
scientific language,
you need complex types included in the language, having it in a library 
some times does
not help because certain concepts you would need to write out like add 
but since C does
have overloading functions (they have types based functions for math 
though, in C99) it
is very hard to do that.

For an example:
double a; ComplexDouble b;
ComplexDouble c;
ComplexDouble d;

Right now:
c = b+a;
d = c - _Imaginary * 2.0;

Your proposal (yes the parser is simpler):
ComplexDouble temp;

c = addComplexDoubleToDouble(b,a);
temp = makeComplexDouble(0, 2.0);
d = addComplexDoubleToComplexDouble(b,temp);

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski


On Sunday, Feb 23, 2003, at 19:04 US/Pacific, Justin Hibbits wrote:

> You know what?  Just forget what I suggested.  Apparently I'm the only 
> member
> of the minority who believes C shouldn't change to be C++, which it 
> seems to be
> doing.  So, from now on, I'll just keep my mouth shut.  Nobody cares 
> what I
> think, as apparently I'm just a fucking troll.
>
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