std.complex MAY I REMIND YOU?

[JMNorris]

Matti Niemenmaa <see_signature at for.real.address> wrote in
news:fptoso$24mc$1 at digitalmars.com: 

> JMNorris wrote:
>> Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in
>> news:fpn4a3$bd9$2 at digitalmars.com: 
>> 
>>> Because advancing compiler technology is pretty much erasing the 
>>> advantages of making complex a core type.
>> 
>> Okay, I'll bite.  What compiler advances are erasing what advantages?
>> I'm quite ignorant of the issues involved.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/cppcomplex.html seems to be a good
> summary. 
> 

This is a good summary of the advantages of making complex a core type.  I 
thought Walter was saying that compiler advances are erasing those 
advantages, and that is why it complex numbers will no longer be a core 
type.  But that is what I don't understand.

-- 
JMNorris