Remove complex and imaginary types?

[Jason House]

Walter Bright Wrote:
> I do too. And been thinking along the lines of simply putting a hack in 
> that the postfix 'i' means that it's a literal of type 'imaginary', and 
> the compiler looks to see if "std.complex" was imported.
> 
> This isn't as outlandish as it sounds, as there's precedent for it both 
> in C++ <typeinfo> and java.lang.String, as well as D's Object.

Any time a hack is needed, it's probably not the best solution.  Somewhere in this thread, people talked about a generic interface for postfix labels.  Examples given were i, ft, km.  I'd be really cool to see something like that make its way into the language instead of a hack.