std.complex
Shammah Chancellor
anonymous at coward.com
Sat Nov 23 07:13:22 PST 2013
On 2013-11-23 14:02:38 +0000, Daniel Murphy said:
> "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote in
> message news:pyjudfnteduztpporndj at forum.dlang.org...
>> On Saturday, 23 November 2013 at 08:18:35 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> They are not deprecated yet, but it has been 'planned' for a long time.
>>> It's one of those things where not deprecating them doesn't hurt anyone, so
>>> it isn't high priority.
>>
>> Must say that, whatever the behind-the-scenes of the implementation, it
>> seems a shame to lose the nice z = x + y*i notation.
>>
>> OTOH I guess that could lead to ambiguous code, e.g.
>>
>> int i = 4;
>> complex z = x + y*i; // what does i mean here?
>
> I feel mostly the same way - except - I've never actually used them in
> my own code, and when I've built test cases for them while fixing other
> bugs I've found some horrific bugs in dmd. This makes me think that
> _nobody_ is using them. And if that's true, we might as well get rid
> of them.
>
> eg https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7594
I disagree. I was using them for physics simulations. They are very
useful for the computational physics community. Just because most
people are still using FORTRAN does not mean they won't switch
eventually.
-Shammah
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