Slides from my ACCU Silicon Valley talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/14/10 2:56 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:29:15 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> On 12/13/10 6:11 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>> Andrei:
>>>> http://erdani.com/tdpl/2010-12-08-ACCU.pdf
>>>
>>> I have a small question. At page 34 of the slides it says:
>>>
>>>> - Built-in complex types are being replaced by library types
>>>
>>> Are complex types totally replaced, or is the complex literals syntax
>>> (like 10+10i) kept? Keeping those literals may be good.
>>
>> Walter wants to keep complex literals. I strongly believe they are
>> completely useless.
>
> I agree with this.  It would be interesting to know how often people
> actually write complex literals.  I suspect it is *very* rare.
>
> And how would it work, anyway?  Should we be required to import
> std.complex to use complex literals?
>
> In my opinion, when the built-in complex types are deprecated, the
> literals should go as well.

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".

That brought down the house.


Andrei