[boost] Re: Boost Mathematicians

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-15 08:25:13

"Hubert Holin" <Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:Hubert.Holin-43D9FC.12043615062004_at_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++.

br

Thorsten