std.complex

[Daniel Murphy]

"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