complex numbers_(re)

Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:59:39 +0200 (MEST)

According to fulvio ciriaco:
> I notice that complex and real numbers cannot be mixed 
> in mathematical expressions.
> The standard tells nothing, to my knowledge, about real 
> being converted automatically to complex, but most 
> compilers of other languages do exactly that.
> I think the following expressions would be not only more 
> confortable but also more efficient than the equivalent 
> explicit conversion, since one cannot directly access to 
> the real and imaginary fields of complex records: [...]

I agree in complete.

I will see how difficult it is to implement these features.
If they don't make too much trouble they might be in the next beta.

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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