[boost] Re: Proposal: Interval arithmetic library

From: Gavin Collings (gcollings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-10 06:14:00

>  > Small nit-pick: you use the name "RealType" for the template
>  > argument. Actually, this could be a complex type or even another
>  > interval type (intervals of intervals have some interesting
>  > properties

> Ahh, I've now gotten to your documentation and see you do have the
> requirements of the "RealType" listed, so my quibble reduces to just
> the name choice :) How about ArithmeticType or NumericType?
> Or maybe just use T. 

Requirements which include LessThanComparable.  std::complex isn't
LessThanComparable.  Should it be valid to write interval<complex<> >? 
A previous answer to this question was to use complex<interval<> >
instead.

Gavin