Replacing built-in complex? What's this about?

[Stewart Gordon]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> So, is complex scheduled for removal from Fortran?
>> Fortran has too little support for abstraction to accommodate complex as a
>> user-defined type gainfully. It also has a great deal of legacy code to
>> worry about.
> 
> Additionally, if you're in Fortran's target demographic it means
> you're about 1000x more likely than the average programmer to actually
> need complex numbers.
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A similar statement could be said about D's target demographic, though 
the figure would probably be a little smaller because of D's target 
demographic being a proper superset of Fortran's.

Stewart.