complex number support

[Quirin Schroll]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at 05:14:52 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> It's becoming clear that I cannot avoid supporting complex 
> numbers in the code generator for AArch64:
>
> 1. deprecating creal and use std.complex instead doesn't help 
> since we need to support old code
>
> 2. C has complex real and imaginary real types, which need to 
> be supported as well.
>
> I'm giving up and am just going to support complex types in the 
> code generator.

Having a built-in complex number types was a major selling point 
when I started looking into D ~10 years ago.