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

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-22 08:11:14

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From: <nbecker_at_[hidden]>

> 1) I completely agree that the design of complex, which disallows
>    direct access to real and imag, is a mistake.  real() and imag()
>    should return a ref.

Real numericists need much more than that. They need layout identical to
that of a POD struct for C/Fortran interoperability:

template <class T> struct complex_layout {
    T real;
    T imag;
};