Re: [boost] Re: std::complex design (Was: N-Dimensional array library submission...)

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-21 19:29:20

nbecker_at_[hidden] writes:

| I totally agree that it would be much easier to port legacy code if
| your could say:
| 
| real(z) = x;
| 
| However, I should point out that it is easy to make a proxy class that
| does just this.

Whether it is easy to make a proxy class for that doesn't suppress the
problem. In fact, there is no way one could make a modifiable lvalue out
of real(z), that was my point.

-- Gaby