digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 11787] New: std.complex should have a separate Imaginary type
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (24/24) Dec 20 2013 https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11787
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11787 Summary: std.complex should have a separate Imaginary type Product: D Version: D2 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Phobos AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com ReportedBy: joseph.wakeling webdrake.net 2013-12-20 08:18:00 PST --- The rationale for a separate imaginary type has been laid out in Kahan & Thomas, "Augmenting a programming language with complex arithmetic", http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1992/CSD-92-667.pdf, and has also been requested on the D mailing lists: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/amzzoithhcsednerqjrk forum.dlang.org Briefly, it should allow more efficient calculations (as unnecessary manipulations of 0 are avoided) and should allow a way round some calculations that unnecessarily evaluate to NaN under the IEEE floating point standard. -- Configure issuemail: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Dec 20 2013