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

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-22 10:27:38

On Friday 22 February 2002 14:11, David Abrahams wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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;
> };
>
>
If I'm not mistaking, you were going to report this, together with rwgk, to 
the commitee. Has this been done already ? AFAICT it did not come up in all 
the responses to Herb Sutter's extension question but is super important for 
all numeric applications.