[Cfp-interest 2984] Re: [SC22WG14.24550] background regarding complex and imaginary types

[Damian McGuckin]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, J??? Gustedt wrote:

> The example of multiplication with an pure imaginary value and some 
> complex infinity shows that this might have been a good idea, but also 
> that nobody in the application world seems ever to have cared enough 
> about such boundary cases to motivate an implementation of this feature.

While relevant to this comment but not CFP-Interest per se, in a different 
language, notably Chapel, which implements both imaginary and complex 
types, there was sufficient user interest/motivation to ensure that such 
boundary cases are correctly handled. At least with the latest update 
which should find its way into the mainstream release soon.

Thanks - Damian

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