
Somewhere in the E.U., le 16/06/2004 Bonjour In article <camtfe$9ja$1@sea.gmane.org>, "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote:
"Hubert Holin" <Hubert.Holin@meteo.fr> wrote in message news:Hubert.Holin-43D9FC.12043615062004@sea.gmane.org...
| What about better expressivity? If you need complex numbers, you | want to treat them as full-blown critters, and (most frequently, if not | always) not as simply a couple of reals.
Complex numbers are a funny bunch to implement. We actually don't want too much encapsulation; in fact you can find several proposals on open-std that seek to remove much of the encapsultion of the complex class in C++.
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Thorsten
What I understood is that people wanted the best of both worlds (sometimes it's an object and sometimes it's just an array), and in this case it could actually happen! What was called for, IIRC, is a guaranty about layout, for which language support was needed. I unfortunately do not know the current situation, but would most like to. Merci Hubert Holin