Slides from my ACCU Silicon Valley talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/14/10 3:24 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei:
>
>> I asked people at a seminar during a recess: "How many remarkable
>> complex constants do you know?" After a long pause, one person
>> replied: "1 + 0i".
>
> Instead of asking that question, I suggest to ask people that write
> code that uses complex numbers if they like the idea of complex
> literals.

So you mean I should ask _that_ question but _other_ people.

> And I suggest to analyse some Fortran/C code that uses
> complex numbers and count how often literals may be useful in the
> code, and how much they may improve the readability of the code.

Magic constants have issues - be they strings, integrals, or doubles. I 
have trouble thinking that complex literals are somehow exempt.


Andrei