Comparison of Imaginary types

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 05:43:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 7/7/26 7:51 PM, Damian McGuckin wrote:
>
> > Is there any background documentation by Walter when he
> implemented them?
>
> This came full circle. :)

We need to go back to the fundamentals. I think Walter's original 
concepts are very sound as they are much closer to the ideas of 
Kahan and Thomas on the need for complex and imaginary types in C.

Given a

     cdouble c;

how does one extract the real and imaginary parts in D?

> There used to be a digitalmars.com article on the rationale for 
> the complex types being a part of the language. I can't find 
> that original article but I have my translation of it to 
> Turkish likely from 2009:
>
>   https://ddili.org/tanitim/fark_karmasik.html

That was useful although some of the automatic translation was 
... well ... interesting