std.complex

[Shammah Chancellor]

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