Do I have to cast double to cdouble everywhere?

[Don]

John Travers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm investigating if D would be useful to me as a numerical programming
> language to replace my current mix of fortran and python.

Welcome! There are quite a few of us who are numerical programmers here, 
and it's one of D's target areas.

> 
> I'm stuck with a problem which seems odd to me:
> 
>     cdouble c1;
>     c1 = 2.0;
> 
> complains:
> 
>     Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (2) of type double to cdouble
> 
> The only way I can find to solve this is by doing:
> 
>     c1 = cast(cdouble)2.0;
> 
> This will drive me crazy, many numeric codes need to multiply complex numbers,
> or assign to them, with real numbers. This problem also occurs with imaginary
> numbers.

Unfortunately we had to disable implicit casts double->cdouble, because 
it causes problems with function overloading.

So you need to explicitly add the imaginary part.
c1 = 2.0 + 0.0i;